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 and follow the directions for the Windows Media Caption Presentation file 1www.dso.ufl.edu/ela

Transcript or SAMI File  Requires a tag to start and end the file.  The 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 tag  In the 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 and follow the directions for the Windows Media Caption Presentation file 2www.dso.ufl.edu/ela

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 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, , , , , , , ,

Windows Media Player 10  New Lyrics Meta information built into the file  Brand new and still needs to be creatively worked through