Hi Brad!
I work for Participatory Culture Foundation on Miro. PCF is involved in
a bunch of other projects, one of which is the Universal Subtitles
project with Mozilla:
http://www.drumbeat.org/project/universal-subtitles
I wish I could say they're further along than they are, but they're not
quite there yet--probably another few months. I'm pretty sure they have
a beta site up and running now, but they're still working through ui issues.
I'm helping the PyCon A/V team with the PyCon 2010 conference video and
we're hoping to use this system/infrastructure for hosting and providing
conference video transcription and translation.
It's definitely worth looking at since it would alleviate the problem
you're having (where do I host this video that supports subtitles?) and
does so in a way that uses HTML5, JavaScript and open standards rather
than Flash which still works poorly on GNU/Linux systems.
I think this reduces your problem to finding a stop-gap solution for
right now.
/will
On 04/04/2010 09:58 PM, Brad Taylor wrote:
> Greetings fine folks!
>
> During the GNOME Accessibility Hackfest in sunny San Diego, California a
> couple of weeks ago, Bryen and myself acted as informal videographers,
> recording interviews and reactions to the hubbub of the conference. Since
> then, I've had the chance to edit down a couple of the interviews that I shot
> with my shiny new HDSLR (one with GNOME Accessibility Grand Pu-Bah, Willie
> Walker, and a quick over-beers interview with David Bolter, Mozilla A11y
> ninja), and I've been looking for a place to host the video, and potentially
> to restart Alberto Ruiz's awesome GNOME TV project.
>
> Alberto started GNOME TV as both a GIT module (that contained some unifying
> branding) and a Vimeo channel, using Vimeo mostly because they'll allow you
> to download the source material (in his case, an Ogg video) if you have an
> account. Normally, I would have continued with that, but unfortunately,
> Vimeo does not provide the ability to closed caption their videos. For this
> reason, I'm inclined to move over to YouTube, as they not only will provide
> automatic captioning for free (which seems to be a good first-order approach
> which can be easily tweaked manually), but you can provide captions in
> multiple languages, making it a resource for not only the hearing impaired,
> but folks who are not native English speakers.
>
> Clearly there will be some folks who have a religious/moral/whatever
> objection to YouTube, so we should probably also provide those videos in
> Theora format as well.
>
> I'd like to find out the following the marketing geniuses here:
>
>* Does anyone have suggestions for alternate video hosting
> methods/sites/etc to YouTube that also provide closed
> captioning?
>
>* If using YouTube doesn't raise the hair on people's necks too much, does
> GNOME have a YouTube account that I
> could post videos to?
>
>* Is there a place that myself and others could host Theora versions of
> GNOME-related interviews and videos?
>
>* Would anyone from the illustrious Art team be interested in helping me
> out with the GNOME TV artwork? I've done
> a little title sequence for it
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Q1VDKOQHU), but I could do a bit more in
> collaboration with a talented and fancy-haired artist. I will pay in
> beers and beer-flavored non-alcoholic ice
> cream.
>
> With HDSLRs becoming incredibly affordable these days, I wonder if we could
> start doing video interviews at more GNOME-sponsored hackfests. You could
> set up a pretty great rig that can shoot in the highest HD quality (1080p)
> for about $1000.
>
> Best,
>
> -Brad
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