[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32084: About Page Videos should be a great experience

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#32084: About Page Videos should be a great experience
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 Reporter:  jorbin       |       Owner:  jorbin
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.3
Component:  Help/About   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  accessibility, administration
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Comment (by helen):

 I had looked at this when doing the 4.0 video and about page. Ideally, we
 would use MediaElement and built-in track element/subtitle support, and I
 think we should have that as the end goal for any further narrated videos
 we include in core.

 For background, here are the issues:

 * Due to the use of .tv's established translation workflow, we end up with
 translation files that are in a different format than MEjs uses (TTML vs.
 SRT, I believe).
 * Without enough time to convert the files and make the subtitle file
 location(s) available for locales to change/add to, the WordPress.tv
 player was used.
 * The WordPress.tv player requires the use of the Flash player to support
 subtitles. It also forcibly disables resize after load. Resizing the
 browser window is realistically an edge case, but it's still quite
 frustrating.

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