Captioning Windows Media Files

Windows Media Player Version 7 and Later

Captioning Windows Media Files

Delivery Method Stand Alone Application/File Embedded in a Web Page

Windows Media Player 10

Stand Alone Application

3 Required Components Video File Transcript or SAMI File Linker or Playlist File

Transcript or SAMI File

SAMI – Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange

Simply a text file Consists of a tagged structure similar

to HTML or web page files Navigate again to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela

and follow the directions for the Windows Media Caption Presentation file 1

Transcript or SAMI File

Requires a <SAMI> tag to start and end the file.

The <SYNC> tag controls when that particular caption should appear in milliseconds.

Linker or Playlist File

This file tells Windows Media Player where the video file is and where the transcript or SAMI file is.

Again it’s just a simple text file with tags

Open the captionhq.wvx file from the Academy CD in the Accessible Windows Media folder.

Linker or Playlist File

Must start and end with an <ASX> tag

In the <REF> tag list the video and SAMI file separated by a ? Mark.

Embedded in a Web Page

3 Required Components Video File Transcript or SAMI file HTML or the Web Page File

Embedded in a Web Page

The video file is the same The transcript or SAMI file is basically

the same with some added user controlled options

Navigate again to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela and follow the directions for the Windows Media Caption Presentation file 2

Embedded in a Web Page

We’ve added a source item to name the speaker

We’ve added an option for small or big text on the fly

We’ve added an alternative language

Embedded in a Web Page

Open the embedded.html file from the Academy CD in the Accessible Windows Media folder.

The main component are the values stored in the <SCRIPT> tag.

Embedded Captioning Exercise

We are going to caption the Embedded.wmv video file using the embedded.rtf file as our transcript.

We are going to use our previous caption and HTML files as models and use MS Word’s replace function to save us time.

Here are the Milliseconds values 0, 14000, 35000, 46000, 61000, 77000, 96000, 120000, 148000, 173000, 210000, 246000, 279000, 294000, 315000

Windows Media Player 10

New Lyrics Meta information built into the file

Brand new and still needs to be creatively worked through