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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Jul 12 2004 9:54AM
Subject: Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working
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> Does anyone know what is needed on the web server to get captioning to
> function properly? I have followed the tutorial on the webaim site
> (http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/windows/) however I am unable
> to get it work consistently. The web server is Apache running on Linux.
> I have set the proper mime types for the asx/asf file as well as for the
> sami/smil file types. However the captioning doesn't seem to be working
> consistently. The video plays fine. To view it you can go to:

I've found that the captions can't be on the streaming server - if you are
streaming the video, try putting the captions on http.

You can have everything on an http server, but use full urls for both the
video and the caption files.
AWK

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Tue, Jul 13 2004 8:33AM
Subject: Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working
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> Thanks Andrew. I tried using the full urls but it still doesn't seem to
> be sending the sami file with the video file.

I'm seeing text on WMP 8 on Windows XP machine and on WMP 7.1 on OSX.

This would be a lot easier to test with a file that wasn't so huge. 242Mbps
for a video that is several minutes in length is a lot to expect end-users
to download...

AWK

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Andrew Kirkpatrick
Project Manager, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
125 Western Ave.
Boston, MA 02134

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617-300-3400 (main NCAM)
617-300-2489 (TTY)

From: Ho Ro
Date: Tue, Jul 13 2004 9:20AM
Subject: Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working
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Thanks Andrew! I agree it's a very large file to download - the video
is part of an interactive CD. That's strange that it works on a WMP 8
player. I've been testing with WMP 9 and have had no luck. Are there
any known workarounds to get it to play on all the players?

What is the recommended solution? I've talked to a few folks and they
recommended using Flash instead. Is that a better solution to ensure
accessibility for the majority?

Andrew thanks again for the information.

Thanks!

From: Ho Ro
Date: Thu, Jul 15 2004 1:19PM
Subject: Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working
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Just a quick follow up. It turned out that I had a stray character in
my smi file. Probably got put in there by Dreamweaver. After reading
the magpie tips on the webaim site I opened the smi file on a linux box
and was able to see it.

Thanks for the help.