Closed Captioning In Web Video?

mforbes writes "Like many geeks, I enjoy watching TV, movies, and streamed video. However, in company with 2%-3% of the population, I suffer from a problem known as Central Auditory Processing Disorder, which essentially means that I have difficulty separating the sounds of human voices from various background noises. When watching TV and when watching movies at home, this isn't a problem, as I can simply turn on the closed captioning. (I find radio to be simply an annoyance.) How much effort would it take the major purveyors of Internet video (the broadcasting majors, etc.) to include an option for CCTV? I doubt the bandwidth required would be more than 1% of that required for the video already being presented. As a social libertarian, I would never ask for government regulation of such an enterprise; I ask only that the major studios be aware of the difficulties that those of us with auditory disorders face. If it's rough for me, how much more difficult can it be for someone who can't hear at all?"

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Open-source version here

[trolltalk.com]

Here's your generic open-source internet video closed caption. Please feel free to distribute it under the BSD license.

BEGIN CLOSED CAPTION

[cheesy elevator music]

Oh ah yes that's it yes baby ooohh right uh uh yes yes ysss ysss! oh god yes more omigod YES

[sound of bed breaking]

[cheesy elevator music]

END CLOSED CAPTION - LOOP

Re:Wouldnt this....

[kv9]

Wouldnt this be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act already?

perhaps he just needs a firmware upgrade?

No. Stop trying to kill the web.

[russotto]

One of the great advantages a new medium has over older media is it hasn't accumulated the amount of cruft the older media have accumulated in years of special-interest pleading. One of the best ways to kill the new medium is to dump all that cruft upon it.

Re:dotSUB

[Snaller]

Try disabling font sizes in explorer and visit that site -Someone should, I won't again.