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No, Dropbox does not yet show subtitles, even if they are embedded into the video files. A video with embedded subtitles can display in any modern video player, such as VLC, but no, Dropbox does not yet support this. I work at a university and this poses an accessibility issue for us. We can't use Dropbox to share and collaborate around video content because our mission is to make our content accessible to all students and faculty, regardless of their disability or background.
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YET I'm still unable to read subtitles for regular videos on my Dropbox, just the same way as on my Macbook when the .vtt or .srt subtitle file is located in the same folder with the identical name of the matching video.
Thanks for posting here on the Dropbox Community and thank you all very much for your feedback on subtitles. It seems like there is a combined will to make this happen among the people who have posted on this thread so I would highly recommend that someone posts it as a feature request over on our Share an idea board, if everyone who has commented here voted for it it could start some good momentum!
Thanks for mentioning Dropbox Replay @shinbeth, I think this is a really good example of how an idea can go through the Share an idea process and become a feature if there is enough demand for it. Just out of curiosity, have you been using Replay, and do you find having the subtitles in there has been a helpful addition? Also, just so you're aware, we recently launched a Dropbox Replay where Replay users can connect with each other and some members of the Replay team, so if you do have any more ideas or feedback we'd love to hear from you over there.
It would be super helpful for my team if .SRT subtitle files were supported in Dropbox Replay. Almost all of our projects use subtitles and it's hard to convince my team on Replay without some sort of subtitle/caption support. It's also important for accessibility standards. Lots of reasons to support captions.
Weird... I can upload them to the video, it tells me they'll only be available on that particular version of the video (cool by me) it says they're in there, that they're selected/active. Still nothing shows on screen.
In the files tool, you can add captions or subtitles in multiple languages to videos with advanced features turned on. This will make your videos more accessible for visitors who cannot hear the audio or who speak a different language. Each visitor can toggle captions on or off depending on their preferences.
@PamCotton I think the key question here, is how to we have Subtitles automatically play when a video starts. Currently someone needs to turn on the Captions/subtitles on the video rather than them just playing automatically
Hi @PamCotton thank you a lot for your detailed reply. Is it possible to keep subtitles on automatically while watching the video or the user would need to turn them on himself/herself?
While testing subtitles on the video, I have noticed, that when the video plays, the subtitles will not appear, until I will click on options on the video.
Best,
Tatiana
Up until yesterday (4th Jun) bbc iplayer had a subtitles icon and subtitles could be switched on/off using it. Today, the icon has vanished from the Brave iplayer (win 10) and subtitles no longer seem to be available. I have checked iplayer in chrome and the icon and availability of subtitles is there as usual. I am puzzled! Is there a setting somewhere that has been accidentally reset? Has an update to win 10 broken something (though the subtitles still work in chrome). Any suggestions?
I did test using mkvtoolnix to remove the "default" flag header entirely from the file and just leave "forced," but no change there. I also tested on the other Roku in the house connected to a cheap 1080p Insignia TV and it is also not display the subtitles. Anything else with the "forced" flag (and "default" flag, for that matter) will play ok... but all those are forced to transcode due to being image-based subs. It's only the embedded SRTs that don't get through.
Without changing anything in your media and leaving both the default and forced flags set your file plays with subtitles for me on my Roku without doing anything. The subtitles automatically show. I went and removed the default flag and created a new remux. That new remux also shows the subtitles Automatically. I cannot make it fail without turning them to None (OFF) they turn off. Turn them back on just fine.
The video player will react as if it has encountered a problem and simulate a playback error. The response will try to recover playback in the best means possible. It will also remove the ability for the Roku to perform the "Format Detection" (this will use HLS) and will instead choose the video, audio, and subtitle streams to make available to the Roku (using an M3U8).
The Emby (cc icon) subtitle selector works with both embedded and external subtitles. The * invokes the Roku built-in subtitle handler. The Roku built-in subtitle handler (using *) only works with embedded. Their built-in subtitle handler be giving us grief on firmware 12 and they (Roku) changed/broke something..
The Emby (cc icon) subtitle selector works with both embedded and external subtitles. The * invokes the Roku built-in subtitle handler. The Roku built-in subtitle handler (using *) only works with embedded. Their built-in subtitle handler be giving us grief on firmware 12 and they changed something or broke something..
The * menu does not find any subtitles... but it doesn't find them for ASS / DVD / BD subtitles, either, on other movies. However, this particular file defaults to "Always On" under the Closed Captions section in here, whereas the others default to "Off." Changing this to Off doesn't help, though.
Clicking * just brings up the Roku menu which allows selection of "always on" - which I have enabled; as far as I know the Roku never shows a list of subs to be selected (but I may never have tried when there was more than one...).
I'm experimenting with uploading .mp4 videos directly to Squarespace rather than embedding YouTube/Vimeo videos. It works fine but there doesn't seem to be any way to add a caption file, and the video player doesn't include closed caption options when you click on the little gear icon. When I look at the code, it seems that Squarespace includes a for captions, but it's empty.
I thought I'd try uploading a caption file to Squarespace's CDN and then use a code block with and tags to create a player (thusly: -US/docs/Web/Guide/Audio_and_video_delivery/Adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_HTML5_video) but before I go about reinventing the wheel ... does anyone have experience with adding subtitles/captions to an uploaded (not embedded) video in Squarespace?
I'm experimenting with uploading .mp4 videos directly to Squarespace. It works fine but there doesn't seem to be any way to add a caption file, and the video player doesn't include closed caption options when you click on the little gear icon.
Hi CPiu94 - I'm wondering if you were ever able to add captions to your videos? Did that HTML code work? I'm building a course in SS, and need my videos to have captions - were you able to figure this out? If so, would you mind telling me how? Thank you so much. I'm totally stuck.
when will captions and subtitles be available on squarespace? I'm hoping soon as I'm about to launch my online course and it'll be such a help, do you know any time frame when this will be available or do we need to opt for a different platform
I've faced a similar issue myself. Best solution I can think of is to use the built in Transcribe feature on Microsoft Word, set the Microphone setting on your PC to Stereo MIx and then play the videos into it, it then uploads the audio only to OneDrive and transcribes it within about a minute or so (for a 2 minute video).
I've tested this on a couple of my online courses and this seems to work quite well as I can then paste the transcript into the HTML page holding the video, it isn't captions but seems to be the next best thing.
Hello - curious if there are any updates of SS offering closed captioning with uploaded videos - or if there is a CSS code solve? I am building out an online course and my client wants to purchase the Pro Plan for Digital Products - but without a closed caption setting - SquareSpace is skipping a critical step for fair accessibility. Would hope this is something they are prioritizing.
Hello! Following up again re: Closed Captioning. My client purchased the Pro Plan for Digital Products and we are deep in an Online Course creation. Does anyone have a lead on when SS will be rolling out closed captioning for videos uploaded natively to the platform? Again feels like a big miss / BIG opportunity for digital content and online courses and technically without it, SS is not meeting Accessibility Standards for Online Courses.
Hello! Following up again re: Closed Captioning. My client purchased the Pro Plan for Digital Products and we are deep in a video-heavy Online Course creation. We bought the Pro Plan because of the ability to host unlimited video natively on the platform.
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