Adding VTT captions as a track so that they can be cut together with the video.

[Raul Beltrán B.]

Hello everyone,

In this thread (from Lars Kiesow) I read that you could cut the subtitles along with the video if you uploaded the VTT file as a track.

I tried what Karen suggests there, but it doesn't work. And the label for uploading the VTT track appears as in the image below.

I can upload the subtitles as an Asset, but do you know if there is a possibility to manage the file as a Track?

Or how can I use this Asset to cut the subtitles with the video editor?

Regards,

Raul B.

[Dietmar Zenker]

Hi Raul,

I don't think that this will ever work, but I've never tried this. (maybe someone else has already implemented this?)

 

How do you generate the VTT? Do you use some of the WOs provided by Opencast for that? (e.g. "speechtotext" for VOSK)

If so, you could use the attached workflow as a work-around that we use in our installation: this WF does not use the source file for generating the VTT with VOSK, but generates a trimmed work version of the video according to the current cutting information and uses the trimmed file for the speechtotext operation. The speechtotext WO could also be replaced by e.g. " microsoft-azure-start-transcription" or other, but the source-flavor has to be changed to that of the trimmed version.

May be that helps,

greetings,

Dietmar

[Matthias Neugebauer]

Hi Raul,

This should work, the translation is just missing. You can provide a default text in this case. Also we configure this as UPLOAD_ASSET and not as SOURCE. This allows you to upload subtitle tracks later on, e.g.:

EVENTS.EVENTS.NEW.UPLOAD_ASSET.OPTION.CAPTIONS_DE={ "displayOrder": 11, "id": "track_captions_de", "type": "track", "flavorType": "captions", "flavorSubType": "source+de", "displayFallback": "Subtitles German", "multiple": false, "accept": ".vtt,.srt,.ass,.ssa“ }

EVENTS.EVENTS.NEW.UPLOAD_ASSET.OPTION.CAPTIONS_EN={ "displayOrder": 12, "id": "track_captions_en", "type": "track", "flavorType": "captions", "flavorSubType": "source+en", "displayFallback": "Subtitles English", "multiple": false, "accept": ".vtt,.srt,.ass,.ssa" }

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[Raul Beltrán B.]

Thank you Dietmar,

Yes, we actually upload the VTT subtitle file after making manual corrections. So it's not an option for us to generate the subtitles again after using the cutting tool.

But your example file gave me additional knowledge that I will use if we opt for another procedure!

Regards,

Raul B.

[Raul Beltrán B.]

Thank you Matthias,

The solution you provided to me works better to attach the VTT file as a Track, before I was using EVENTS.EVENTS.NEW.UPLOAD_ASSET.OPTION.CAPTIONS_WEBVTT.

Now I can rename and copy the captions file together with the video, using the WOH. But sadly, the video editor does not affect the subtitles as Lasr expected.

Is there any way to use the SMIL file to do this externally?

Regards,

Raul B.

[Matthias Neugebauer]

Hi Raul,

Since Opencast 12.4 you should be able to cut subtitle tracks. See https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/3606 for more information.

– Matthias

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48149 Münster
Germany

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Mail: matthias....@uni-muenster.de