Does MediaFront/OSM support closed captions?
I don't see anything relevant in the documentation or configuration options.
If not supported directly, is there a patch or a workaround?

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afem’s picture

afem commented

I am am interested in this as well, but for srt files.

Ganginator’s picture

Ganginator commented

I am also in need of this, and would rather not switch to another player.
MediaFront has been good to me.
I was told that in even the web, the FCC is requiring Closed Captioning by the end of 2014.

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travist commented

I would be willing to build out this feature, but it would require some sponsorship. If anyone is interested in sponsoring this much needed feature, please let me know.

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mgifford
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With the FCC deadline I wonder who else will be looking for this?

I assume this is the guideline:
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/closed-captioning

I'm still not sure who the target is. If we're going to crowd fund this we need to know how much it will probably cost to develop and who is the crowd to ask for $$.

I'm happy to try to help raise the profile of this.

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travist commented

I have estimated the build-out of this a time ago, but it never came to fruition. HTML5 is actually the easy part here... The real headache will be to build-out this capability in the Flash fallback. I am currently using an MIT licensed Flash player that I wrote https://github.com/travist/minplayer-flash, which unfortunately does not support closed captions. So I have three choices here...

A.) Build out the closed captions using the flash player I wrote.
B.) Rewrite the Flash player shim in OSM player ( https://github.com/travist/minplayer/blob/master/src/minplayer.players.f... ) to utilized a more maintained Flash fallback player.
C.) Create a new media player plugin for MediaFront to support a media player that has Closed caption support, like MediaElement.

I am leaning more to either option B or C, but would love to hear from the community for their opinion.

Regardless of which option we pick, however, we are looking at around 50 total hours of development. My Open Source rate for code that is re-contributed back to the community is $100/hr, but I am willing to do this project for $75/hr since this is a MUCH needed feature.

How does a bounty of $3750 sound for the development of Closed captioning in the MediaFront module?

Let me know if that is reasonable and I will setup a bounty to giter-done.

Thanks,

Travis.