Do BrightSign players support closed captioning or subtitles?

Is it possible to preview the subs in Brightauthor ?

Im doing this the Subtitles Widget method and I see nothing.

Edit: The subtitles widget method does not work in the preview or on the players.

This really should be a lot simpler to do!

Darn right. Why is SRT support (on/off or even some basic placement control) not native to the video player widget itself. This should be much easier to implement.   

This subtitle editor http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

can import an SRT and Export custom export text format.

This can be easily modified to suit the widget.

But seriously Brightsign should have a built in automatic support for SRT or similar as this is still very clumsy.

Hi Semi: 

Thanks. This is really helpful. Well hopefully! 

I still can't get the subtitle script on GitHub Subtitle Widget to work. Nothing is displayed. Does this only work if published to a physical box. I'm at home and was testing in BrightAuthor. I see others having issues with the script as well. No joy on that. 

It's just absolutely stunning that SRT support is not built in to BrightSign's video player. Really, it's 2018 and we are still fighting to see universal accessibility features that are in every video engine (VLC et. al.). This will be a show stopper for any future BrightSign sales at my University.  

I see nothing in Brightauthor either and someone from tech sent me a different widget script after posting here . If they dont contact you then write to support 

Hi Semi: 

Did that script work in the end? 

Partially. I think I need to tinker with it to get the text the correct size and position

If you get it working can you let me know and perhaps send me the script. At this point I get no text at all, so I'm flying in the dark. 

I was able to get a copy of a more recent version and it did technically "work". But this should not require scripting. The video player in Brightsign should natively support captioning (on/off, track and basic placement would be enough). As is the case with VLC et. al.

Having to edit the script to get it to work in a real world scenario (i.e., multiple videos etc.) is becoming a PITA. All this would be unnecessary if the video player had this basic functionality. 

For anyone looking at captioning support in BS in a real world environment (video playlists) I would caution them to check very carefully. Can it be technically be done = YES. Will you need to become a BS programmer = almost certainly YES!!!!!! Is is pain = ABSOLUTELY! 

BrightSign. Please add captioning features to the Video Player Widget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can do captioning without a plugin and without extra files using html. If you have video content with caption information encoded in it, you can display that caption using html. No extra plugin or scripting is required. 

The non html video player does support this as well, but it requires a plugin, but just to turn on the feature. Once turned on with the plugin, you can display caption information that's embedded in the video.

Only captioning that uses separate text files requires a plugin. Using a plugin makes it portable. Technically, if we assume the srt file will always match the video file name, the code could be easily moved into the autorun script that brightauthor pushes to the player. But, then it wouldn't be portable. If you updated your brightauthor, which would update the autorun script, you'd have to move the code into the new autorun again.

the option that requires the least amount of effort  is html, assumign the videos have the capiton information encoded. 

The non html video player does support this as well, but it requires a plugin, but just to turn on the feature. Once turned on with the plugin, you can display caption information that's embedded in the video.

Could you point me to where this non html video player plugin is and how it to be used. It appears to be exactly what I need but I have no idea what the process is to implement this. 

There´s a plugin to work with .srt files:

http://brightsignnetwork.com/download/Romeo/Touch_Multi_language_Selection_SRT_Subs.zip 

Hello,

I want to try the subtitle for othe players (HD224)

Is it possible to download this plugin ? (Touch_Multi_language_Selection_SRT_Subs.zip)

Your link is broken (error 404).

And the "Subtitle Widget" doen't work

Many thanks.

Hi,

Please see the following package which you may find useful: http://brightsignnetwork.com/download/Romeo/SubRip_SRT_Jeff_ISE_2018_English_French.zip .

Regards,

Romeo