From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 22:32:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9B0106564A for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC5F8FC18 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so7095328rvf.43 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.194.21 with SMTP id w21mr5567513rvp.230.1230762777243; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.151.6 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a7894eb0812311432o4ac4ac88g49fd59ab63ea2457@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:56 -0800 From: "Murray Stokely" To: "FreeBSD doc list" In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0812311427q7125e48dr8d4c2b5c5abee2b2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2a7894eb0812311427q7125e48dr8d4c2b5c5abee2b2@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed to add Subtitles to Conference Videos X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:32:59 -0000 I forgot to include two additional help topics / videos that provide more background about adding subtitles : http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079 http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077&cbid=-187pqdnf2wsk7&src=cb&lev=answer There are standard formats for these things so the subtitles could be used by other video hosting services as well. - Murray On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Murray Stokely wrote: > We now have over 23 videos uploaded to the BSD Conferences video > channel from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, and other BSD conferences. > > I'd really like to add subtitles to the YouTube metadata as this has > been requested by several users. Once we have subtitles they will be > autotmatically machine translated so that users can choose captions in > the language they are most comfortable with. > > There are a variety of tools you can use to record a transcription of > the video. One that I tried recently was the webservice Overstream : > > http://www.overstream.net > > You simply give it the URL for the YouTube video as it is playing and > it lets you add caption overlays and modify the timings to sync it up > properly. > > The end result should be a text file with caption and timings which we > can then upload to different video services to provide the captioning > on demand. > > If you have any experience with this, or if you'd like to try to > caption one of the videos, please let me know. Thanks and happy new > year! > > - Murray >