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Do Brightsign support .srt subtitle files

Catherine Jones

February 25, 2016 11:28

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I know brightsigns support subtitles through text files ( https://github.com/brightsign/BrightAuthor-Plugins/tree/master/Subtitles-Widget )but do they support the standard .srt format or is it possible to convert .srt files to the brightsign text files format.

 

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Catherine

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  Romeo February 25, 2016 14:05

  Hi Catherine,

  Please see the below link for an example of a presentation that uses a plugin for SRT sub playback.

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

  You'll need a touch screen or a mouse connected to the player in order to interact with this presentation.

  Regards,

  Romeo

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  Tara Garwood October 31, 2016 16:06

  Hello! I see that BrightSign now supports SRT files. Could you please point me towards a tutorial for using them? Also will it work for multiple videos in a presentation? Thanks!

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  Mario Brauer August 01, 2017 08:53

  Hej Romeo. I am really interested in this plugin. It works as it is right now. I am interested in two changes. Is it possible to have the text be rotated 90 degrees and how can I change the font type to be a ttf file we choose? Is there a new version of the set plugin out? 

  Cheers.

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  Jeremy Littler January 24, 2018 12:56

  Hi: 

  
  The presentation loads and runs fine but I don't see any text. Any help would be appreciated! 

   

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  Jeremy Littler January 24, 2018 13:47

  Same issue. Any help would be appreciated. 

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  Mark Richards January 21, 2019 17:15

  Having had a need to include support subtitle files in a project of my own, I noticed a couple of issues that would be worth noting for anyone else following this example.

  For my project, I want to play the same video with/without subtitles depending on the users selection.

  Firstly, my subtitle text entries were not appearing. This was down to the editor used to create the *.srt file. Each line was ended with a LF (0x0A), when I changed this to CRLF (0x0D 0x0A) my subtitle text started appearing. (This could be the issue you were seeing Jeremey Littler)

  There is also a bug in the bright script in this example. If you have subtitle text on the screen when the video is ended, then try to play a non- subtitled ("clear") video after that, you'll see the last subtitle string from the previous video remains on the screen. Only the middle text line of subtitles is being hidden on a "clear" call.

  To fix this, change subroutine ClearOFF() as follows:

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  Sub ClearOFF()

  m.TimeArray = invalid
  m.TimecodeSubtitleAA = invalid
  ClearEventsOK = m.bsp.sign.zoneshsm[0].videoplayer.ClearEvents()
  
  m.MiddleText.Clear()
  m.MiddleText.Hide()
  m.UpperText.Clear()
  m.UpperText.Hide()
  m.BottomText.Clear()
  m.BottomText.Hide()
  
  End Sub

  ==============================

  This will hide the old strings fin the upper and bottom text lines as well.

   

  I hope this helps the next person trying to setup *.srt file support.

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  David Chan May 05, 2021 18:27

  The sample presentation for SRT subtitles on brightsignnetwork.com doesn't exist anymore. Is there a new location to download the presentation from?