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Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it.

Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it.

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Extract automatic captions from YouTube video

I'm having problems extracting automatic captions from YouTube videos. I tried using the http://video.google.com/timedtext?type=track&v=3wszM2SA12E&name=Automatic&lang=en method, but that one only works for those videos, which have named tracks.…
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How to punctuate youtube transcripts?

On Youtube, I can download the CC transcript for a video but the transcript does not contain punctuation. How can I punctuate the transcript automatically?
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Get closed caption "cc" for Youtube video

Does any one know how to get the CC for any Youtube video that has the caption available? I know on the API 2.0 documentation mentions that it is only available for the owner of the video... but I was able to get some of the video's caption even…
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Closed Captions in YouTube API v3

I need to read closed caption text from 3rd party, publicly available YouTube videos in my java webapp i.e. I have NOT uploaded the content. Whilst v2 of the YouTube Data API restricted access to the caption information to the person who uploaded…
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HTML5 track captions not showing

I am trying to make the simplest html5 video player in the world: ST Media Player
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Force YouTube closed captions via URL

I want to play a YouTube video on my website, with closed captions and even translation turned on. The URL of my video (forgive the commercial nature) is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygL_gJPbaKI I know the video is Closed Caption and Automatic…
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Toggling Closed Caption in HTML5 video and disabling default video controls

I have two problems. As soon as I put the track tag within my video element the video's default controller shows up. I have custom controls so it's quite the problem. Second. I can't find a way to toggle closed caption on an off. HTML:
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Is it possible to support closed captioning with Android's native player

Does android's native player supports closed captioning while streaming a live video? If yes, is it handled automatically by the player or need to handle it separately and how? We have a requirement specifically for android 3.0 and above to display…
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Any way to turn on/off live captions on Chrome programmatically?

Recently Chrome released a new accessibility feature in Chrome 89 called Live Captions. This is a great feature for us, as we have a custom video chat app, and I'd like to have a button to allow users to turn the captions on and off for anyone who…
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Rendering Closed Captions for HLS streams on Android

I'm working on a native Android application that streams HLS video. I'm trying to get CEA-608 closed caption data to display, but I'm running into a problem. Methodology: I'm running on a Jelly bean device (API 4.1+), which supports closed captions…
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HTML5 video doesn't play with crossOrigin="anonymous"

I am trying to integrate the HTML5 video player in my application. My video sources and the caption (for track tag) are coming from a different domain. When I use the
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Closed Captions in MPMoviePlayerController for iPhone

I'm trying to play a movie that has closed captions embedded in the file (.scc) using an instance of MPMoviePlayerController. I've read the documentation and don't see support to turn captions on with this class. I know Apple allows a user to turn…
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Jwplayer subtitles in Chrome appear too big

I have a page with jwplayer to play videos, but subtitles in chrome appears too big. You can check it in the next example page: https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1430278-cea-608-and-708-captions Firefo example. Captions are ok in…
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iOS: Choosing specific Closed Captions EIA-608

There is lot of mystery around CC608 usage under iOS. Apple's UsingHLS offers to declare them in the manifest like…
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What is the best way to extract closed caption from movie files?

I need to extract closed caption information from movie files, I have tried ccextractor but it does not seem to work. I have captured a video stream (with closed caption in it) and saved to a file and then I run ccextractor... but it can't find…
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