Video subtitles widget

SUMMARY

• This widget allows to play a video with subtitle vtt (or srt)

COMPATIBILITIES

• DMB400/SMA300 device
• Gekkota V4.11.10 (or above)
• PlugnCast 3.10.50 (or above) / Playzilla 4.11.11

2019-09-12 (last update)

• Add support for German language
• Fix: default duration property was 00:00:00 (instead 00:00:10)

INFORMATION

DOCUMENTATION

How to

• Download the media video_subtitle.wgt and import it in your PlugnCast G3 library
• Download the file subtitle.css (example) and import it in your PlugnCast G3 library
• In your PlugnCast library, select the media video_subtitle.wgt, add to it a linked files metadata, in which you drop from your library
  • your video media
    • supported video containers:
      • *.mp4,
      • *.mp2,
      • *.mov,
      • *.mpg,
      • *.mpeg,
      • *.mkv,
      • *.m4v,
      • *.wmv
    • your subtitle file with the supported formats:
      • *.srt,
      • *.vtt (viewable in PlugnCast)
    • your optional custom subtitle.css file in case subtitles style customization is required
      • by default the attribute "font-size" is calculated by an algorithm to adapt layout changes; but if you want, you can set a fixed value
• Add the widget video_subtitle.wgt to your playout and publish

Content temporarily unvailable

• In case a message content temporarily unavailable is displayed,
  • check that your video media is properly played alone in a new playout by the DMB400 device
  • in case your need to alternate standard video medias with this widget video_subtitle.wgt
    • set the user preference innes.video.decoding-group.enabled to true
  • in case another video is already played in another zone,
    • set also the user preference innes.video.decoding-group.enabled to true

Subtitles not displayed

• In case subtitles are not displayed, check that the timestamp value for the first subtitle is lower than the video duration or widget duration
• Only the Web VTT subtitle (*.vtt) can be previewed in PlugnCast 3.10.42 (or above)

Compatibility

The widget models is tested with the last available Smart monitors OS versions.

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