New subtitles functionality to become available in the Video Player app
JW
Great news for users who depend on subtitles. François Beaufort (Google employee and famous Google evangelist) recently mentioned that the Video Player App will display subtitles (if there exists a subtitles .vtt file with the same name as the video file.)
This new functionality should become available as the latest dev release makes its way toward stable.
YAAY ! More-better accessibility support !
-JW
PS: from what i can understand of this, this new functionality is not limited to Chromebooks, but should be applicable to Chromebooks, too.
ref François Beaufort’s post here:
https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/8HFmQK2zKWd?pid=6269732257635398210
François Beaufort Shared publicly - Apr 4, 2016
The Video Player App shows you subtitles if there's a .vtt file with the same name as the video file next to it in the latest Dev update. And there is also a brand new subtitles button to toggle them.
For info, the famous SRT was used as the basis for the Web Video Text Tracks¹ (WebVTT) file format.
¹ https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/
Source: https://codereview.chromium.org/1824803003
Issue 1824803003: VideoPlayer: Create subtitles button. (Closed)
