Update: Blip has now updated their player to include captioning!
Today there was big news in the web series industry. Blip.TV announced it had redesigned their website to showcase the best, most professional web series. Not only that, Blip had raised $18 million in new funds.
Blip.TV claims it has support for closed captioning. A message on the Blip.TV support forum from Blip.TV staff on February 23, 2011 states:
"The blip.tv player supports closed captioning in .SRT or .TT format. Just upload your file as a secondary format on the Edit Episode page."
Another, much longer support forum thread discusses Blip.TV support for captioning.
However, where are those captioned videos on Blip.TV?! When Blip.TV redesigned their site, they did NOTHING to make it easier to find the captioned videos! AND the video player STILL does not prominently display a CC button like the one you see on YouTube videos.
Via Google, we found this Blip.TV file:
http://blip.tv/spacegeek/closed-captioned-the-pope-freud-seti-202162
When we played it, we observed that there was no CC button to enable hearing people to turn the captions on and off. Therefore, we can't tell if it is hard coded subtitles, or if it is truly CC.
Blip.TV needs to spend a FEW of those $18 million dollars to improve their website and video player's accessibility!!
There are other sites like Universal Subtitles, Videohelp.com, Doom 9, and Bill Creswell's that can help with subtitle creation and/or have tools to create them.
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*sigh* It cannot be that difficult to fix the issue. Let's hope they do.
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