#webvtt

If you ever want to add subtitles to a vimeo video (which is where my fanvid is, because it doesn’t seem to do the same copyright checking that youtube does):

VTT seems like the easiest format to use. It looks like this:

WEBVTT

1 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:18.000 I hate the world today

2 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.500 You're so good to me, I know

You have to have that WEBVTT title at the top.

I think the sequence numbers (1, 2, 3, etc) are optional, and can start with 0.

The time codes are [hour]:[minute]:[second].[millisecond] and the milliseconds have to be three digits. Note that it goes colon, colon, period.

You have to have [space][dash][dash][angle bracket][space] between the two time codes. I’m not clear if it matters whether it’s a dash or a hyphen. (I think there’s a difference?) (I think tumblr is messing with my formatting and removing a dash, but there does need to be two of them.)

You can have two lines in one sequence, to tell it where a line break should be. For example:

9 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:45.000 Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous

You don’t have to put anything special to end the file.

When you save it, make sure it’s saved as .vtt, not .txt.

On vimeo, you add the file at Settings > Distribution > Subtitles. Vimeo is not good at providing errors. If something is wrong with the file, nothing happens.

Announcing AS3-WebVTT

AS3-WebVTT is a set of ActionScript 3.0 utility classes which enable the parsing and sorting of standard WebVTT (.vtt) files for video captioning.

Announcing AS3-WebVTT: AS3 utility lib enables the parsing and sorting of standard WebVTT (.vtt) => http://t.co/XF2JZUtFBJ