mVideoPlayer is a free Android app that plays many different video formats and displays subtitle (.srt) files rather well. The interface is very clean and users have a lot of control over the subtitle size, position, font, and timing.
mVideoPlayer supports the following subtitle files: .srt, .ssa, .ass, .mpl, .smi, .txt, and .sub sami. There is also built-in subtitle search powered by OpenSubtitles.org, and users can download and pair a subtitle with a video in less than 10 seconds. This app supports many video formats but not .mov.
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My TMobile Sidekick LX finally bit the dust so I got a new Epic 4G yesterday and switched from TMobile to Sprint after 8 years with TMobile. It was an easy decision because Sprint offers deaf-friendly data-only plans and a larger selection of phones.
First impressions of the Epic: love it! My only “complaints” are, the visual alerts aren’t as prominent, and the battery doesn’t last very long (and yes, I have Advanced Task Killer.) A friend mentioned external battery packs, so I’ll look into that.
Jaman is an online movie site that specializes in indie, art house, and foreign films. Full-length feature movies can be downloaded to watch on your computer or television (no iPod or iPhone capability, yet) and cost $1.99 to rent and $4.99 to purchase. There are over 1,000 titles to choose from, and being that a lot of these selections are foreign, there are films available that come with English subtitles.
I am hoping that Jaman will show other movie download companies that subtitles/captions on downloads do work. Dear iTunes and Netflix: hint, hint.
Ed. note: I updated this post at 14:35 PST on Monday, Feb 11, 2008 to add more information of each candidate’s voting record on accessibility & deaf tech issues, and upgraded McCain’s grade from “F” to “D-” based on his voting record.
This post over on Daily Kos by “slinkerwink” describes how Barack Obama is the only candidate with consistently captioned videos. That got me thinking, and I did some research: a report card grading each presidential candidate on their accessibility to the deaf.
I was reluctant to post this because it’s been all over the deaf blogosphere, but just in case my readers haven’t seen it yet, this is a very funny commercial that aired during last week’s Super Bowl. Thank you, Pepsi! More info on the video here.
dotSUB allows users to create their own captions/subtitles on online videos. From their website:
dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download. Recognizing the potential of global communication powered by the Internet, the founders of dotSUB created a web-based tool that enables video to be accessed in an open, collaborative, “wiki” type environment. The dotSUB tool gives anyone the ability to translate video content into multiple languages via subtitles rendered over the bottom of the video.
The gym I work out at has five television sets in the cardio room. I noticed that when I went to work out, sometimes the closed captions would be displayed on one set, but not all five sets. And sometimes the closed captions wouldn’t be turned on at all. For the past few weeks, the captions have been completely off. When I went to talk to the employees about this, they all claimed they couldn’t do anything to the TV’s because only a manager has the remote and the managers are never there when I am (I go around 6 PM) so I couldn’t ask them directly. The employees kept claiming that they had left notes for the managers, but the captions still did not come on. Since I can’t listen to music, I was getting pretty bored while I worked out on the elliptical trainer.
I discovered over the weekend while playing Portal on a friend’s orange box that it has closed captions AND subtitles, and the handheld controller vibrates during certain events, such as firing the gun or impacting.
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mVideoPlayer is a free Android app that plays many different video formats and displays subtitle (.srt) files rather well. The interface is very clean and users have a lot of control over the subtitle size, position, font, and timing.
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