On Monday we created a closed captioned video player using flash and ActionScript 3.0. For the next part of this tutorial we will take our existing code and change our player into a skin. Right now, the player from Monday can only play our Frontier Airlines commercial. If we want it to play a different [...]
Closed Captions with Flash Video
Close captioning your videos makes them accessible to users with hearing and learning disabilities. For government and in my case, higher education it is the law, your content must be accessible. Another great reason to close caption your videos is for search engines. The captions are stored separately in an XML file and can be parsed out into HTML so a search engine can read them; this makes your vides searchable. This tutorial will cover the basics of the FLVPlayback caption controls.
