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[Michael Nelson <michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Michael Vogt <mvo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> B1;2802;0cOn Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:05:34PM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>> Hi folks
> Hi Matthew!
>
>> Since some work has started on allowing embedded videos in USC, I've
>> started writing up the various use cases we need to consider --
>> specifying the language a video is in, reporting a video as
>> inappropriate, copying video links to share elsewhere, and so on.
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Videos>
>
> Thanks, that looks really good! You raise a lot of important
> points. Once we progressed a bit further, we should probably also post
> some initial guidelines for video upload contributions, e.g. recommend
> software to use, length, if/how subtitles can be done and if/how they
> can be translated. A bit like the guidelines page for reviews (but
> probably a bit more elaborate).
>
> I imagine that we will initially re-use a lot of the same
> policies/practises as for the screenshots and we will most likely use
> a hacked up version of debshoots (the same softare/server we currently
> use for the screenshots) for the initial version.
>
> For the player UI we will initially have to use what we are offered by
> the hoster (e.g. youtube). I'm not sure how well e.g. subtitles are
> supported, but it would be great if someone would do a bit of research
> on this.

Universal subtitles is a great way to do this in a platform independent way:

http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/

It grew out of a Mozilla project :-)


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