ViewCast‘s new Niagara SCX Pro captures and encodes streaming video for handheld/mobile devices. They included closed captioning technology for XML in this product.
Captions for handheld devices coming soon? I hope!
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What does that mean? Another XML document type for captioning? We have those already. And Line 21 and HDTV do not use any of them.
In the online or handheld “space,” closed captioning is the wrong way to go.
Hmmm…
I looked up viewcast.com and I can’t find info about captioning for this product. Can you help me out?
Thanks!
gwlj
From Kathryn:
Hey Grant,
Google “viewcast niagara closed captioning” and you’ll get plenty of results. Let me know if you need more help.
Best,
K
Hello Kathryn,
Since the recent iTunes and QuickTime support for closed captions, Apple devices have been updated to support and display closed captions.
At this point they work on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since there are no movies that you can buy yet, you can try it with material available from video podcasts like mine.
I invite you to download my most recent releases as these comply with the standard. If you want to watch them you will need the latest version of iTunes in your computer.
These links are supposed to connect you to my video podcast through iTunes where you can subscribe:
itpc://tecnocato.podbean.com/feed
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=123401561&s=143441
On the technical side, iTunes, QuickTime, the iPhone and the iPods support CEA-608. The closed captions are embedded in the encoding process. You will need to go to your software or devices settings to enable the display. I think they went with CEA-608 as it is probably the most commonly used.
what we need is a device that is hand held with a builtin microphone pointed at the speaker with voice recognition printing out on a small screen.
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