[blindlaw] blindlaw Digest, Vol 122, Issue 24

[James Pepper]

Long playing video with closed captioning has technical problems that have
to be overcome.  Sure you can close caption a small video on YouTube
something less than 5 minutes and it will match up to the words, but long
playing closed captioning doesn't sync with the video and so you have a
technical problem.

i worked on closed captioning several videos, film documentaries of more
than 30 minutes each and I found that the sync times depended on what type
of encoding was used for the films.  That even though it appeared that the
videos were exactly the same, they came from the same original file, they
were slightly off and the times for the compressed videos we posted on
YouTube, did not match the times for the videos we placed on Blue Ray.  And
as you progressed through the video, the time syncing went farther and
farther off.

This is not like subtitles, which are directly embedded in the film and
which I think is a better idea with movie theatre films, closed captioning
is a separate file and so syncing the video becomes very important.  You do
not want the punch line to be disclosed before it is said on the screen.

The movie industry is going to be able to say that for technical reasons
this is not going to be as easy as everyone thinks it will be and I would
suggest that if you push too hard you may end up with a situation we have
now with DAISY where it seemed like a great idea but nobody could implement
it consistently.

Google is doing the best work in closed captioning, they have a vested
interest in making this work.

James Pepper


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