Ticket #1421 (closed feature: fixed)

Opened 22 months ago

Last modified 21 months ago

Captions: HTML5 version

Reported by: jeroen Owned by: jeroen
Priority: Milestone: Plugins
Component: html5 Keywords:
Cc: Forum thread:

Description (last modified by jeroen) (diff)

An initial HTML5 version of the captions plugin will be very useful for people that want to use HTML5 as their primary rendering method. Features to support:

  • back/file/state options
  • SRT file format (no DFXP yet)
  • files/labels options (multiple languages)
  • color/fontFamily/fontSize/fontStyle/fontWeight/textDecoration options (for global styling)
  • playlist support (one/more captions per playlist entry)

Omitting support for DFXP means the XML parsing and more complicated styling rules of this format can be circumvented.

DFXP also bites with WebVTT, the upcoming HTML5 caption standard. Since WebVTT isn't finalized yet, it will also not go into this release. It's ticketed separately in #1422

Likewise, the <track> tag isn't supported by browsers yet. Parsing those to populate the plugin (like we parse <source> tags) is also for later.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 21 months ago by jeroen

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 21 months ago by jeroen

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

HTML5 support added in [1980]

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