#closedcaptions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #closedcaptions, aggregated by home.social.
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I've started two baseball games for my father. On the right-hand TV, the MLB app is running on an Onn box, and turning Closed Captions on is easy. On the left-hand TV, the MLB app is running on a Roku box, and it's not.
There are three options to choose from: CC Turn On, CC Turn Off, CC Replays Only. Except no matter which option I choose, I'm not seeing captions during the pregame chatter. #ClosedCaptions
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This is in the context of Stranger Things, but no spoilers whatsoever.
So Stranger Things made headlines in past years for its thorough and sometimes gross-out closed captions.
I've been watching S5 and haven't seen any of that. Not only that, but no other cues like "[door slams]" or "[gasps]" or "[haunting choral music]."
Apparently, Netflix started rolling out a "feature" last Spring that in shows going forward, choosing "English" subtitles shows only the dialogue. You have to pick "English [CC]" to get the audio cues as well.
I'm honestly not sure who is served by the former who wouldn't be at least as well served by the latter. But the fuckers seem to have defaulted things to the one without audio cues--i.e., the least accessible thing they could have done. As well as undercutting and concealing the hard work of the sound designers.
Fuck the hard-of-hearing, I guess.
#accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #Netflix #SoundDesign #StrangerThings #EverydayAbleism
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Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Any of you know your way around android APK files?
I have a really weird, very specific modification I'd like to have done to a file, it SHOULD be really simple, but I know basically nothing about this sort of thing.
Spectrum (the Cable TV provider) refuses to release a version of their app for Google/Android TVs. A couple of years ago, someone made an APK that opens "a simple webview that launches the spectrum website to watch live tv." They also routed the basic controls through the TV remote.
It works great... but the one problem I constantly run into is that there's no way to turn Closed Captions on.
The project is on Github - https://github.com/dyay108/SpectrumTV_webview - but hasn't been updated in years and presumably won't need it as long as Spectrum has a web page where you can watch all your cable TV channels. I reached out to the creator asking if there was a way to make a CC-always-on version of it for those that want it that way, but haven't heard back.
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Last week I solved an interesting problem - how to get English subtitles working from a Star Trek DVD.
Short answer: it had no English subtitles, but had Closed Captions info in its analog video stream. So it was a matter of making the DVD player to spit the CC out and the TV to ingest and display CC.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-the-curious-case-of-the-missing-english-subtitles.html
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Question for nerds and video watchers: are the closed captions available in this (you may have to enable them)?
https://m.earth.org.uk/smart-radiator-valves-talk-20201112.html
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CW: Tangential anecdote: closed captions, so close to accessible but not
This is about hearing loss not vision, but:
A couple years ago, HBO Max ran a Batman "radio drama." The visual was static: old-time radio and background.
And they had closed captions to accommodate hearing impairment.
So far, so good.
But the captions didn't note who was speaking.
Typically in my experience, CCs usually don't tag the speaker if you can see the speaker's mouth moving, but do otherwise.
So these CCs help the hearing-impaired if and only if the person with impaired hearing could recognize the voices with no visual cues.
I made it about 20 minutes.
They came so close...
#HBOMax #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #AccessibilityFailure
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How To Add Closed Captions in Videos Using Canva? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu06cTSegVk 🎬💡✍️ #Add #ClosedCaptions #Videos #Canva #Guide
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I wonder if there's a technical reason why #ClosedCaptions steer away from both onomatopoeia and emoji usage. Especially puzzling since 1. English has adopted majy onomatopoeic verbs (booming, screeching, whooshing, etc) and 2. emoji characters are now widely supported. #A11y -
The Register: Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well. “China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.”
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?
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What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?
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What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?
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What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?
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What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?
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See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
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See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
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See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
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See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
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See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
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At first glance it seems obscure, even esoteric, but given some thought it becomes obvious that an easy accessibility win is routinely being ignored.
Hey, @videolan I love you, but you rate 'Could Do Better' in this class. Maybe have a look pls?
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Thank you for making me feel old today, @TechConnectify, by telling me that #DVD will turn 30 next year...
But more importantly, thanks for your interesting video about #ClosedCaptions and #subtitles in that format, and how a lot of modern HDMI implementations of it are no longer supporting #line21 CC data: https://youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU -
Thank you for making me feel old today, @TechConnectify, by telling me that #DVD will turn 30 next year...
But more importantly, thanks for your interesting video about #ClosedCaptions and #subtitles in that format, and how a lot of modern HDMI implementations of it are no longer supporting #line21 CC data: https://youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU -
Thank you for making me feel old today, @TechConnectify, by telling me that #DVD will turn 30 next year...
But more importantly, thanks for your interesting video about #ClosedCaptions and #subtitles in that format, and how a lot of modern HDMI implementations of it are no longer supporting #line21 CC data: https://youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU -
Thank you for making me feel old today, @TechConnectify, by telling me that #DVD will turn 30 next year...
But more importantly, thanks for your interesting video about #ClosedCaptions and #subtitles in that format, and how a lot of modern HDMI implementations of it are no longer supporting #line21 CC data: https://youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU -
Ugh, so annoying when closed captions are positioned on top of open captions...
Which means I'll have to turn off my closed captions to be able to properly read one of them, or change my semi-transparent background to a solid one, and then switch it back again after that video for ones that don't have open captions...
#ClosedCaptions #OpenCaptions #subtitles #accessibility #a11y
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Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus
Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption
#netflix #tekstitykset #closedcaptions #suoratoisto #uutiset #teknologia #televisio #tekniikka
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Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus
Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption
#netflix #tekstitykset #closedcaptions #suoratoisto #uutiset #teknologia #televisio #tekniikka
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Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus
Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption
#netflix #tekstitykset #closedcaptions #suoratoisto #uutiset #teknologia #televisio #tekniikka
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Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus
Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption
#netflix #tekstitykset #closedcaptions #suoratoisto #uutiset #teknologia #televisio #tekniikka
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Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus
Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption
#netflix #tekstitykset #closedcaptions #suoratoisto #uutiset #teknologia #televisio #tekniikka
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I usually just want to know what people in movies are saying. I'll judge for myself if the music is ominous.
Of course there are people who need this extra bit of description but it should be rather easy to add a subtitle file without those bits.
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It's here, it's here! Rift of the Necrodancer is here! Let's jam out to awesome music while I learn the ins and outs of its mechanics!
:live: #GoingLive now at https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #streaming #SmallStreamer #ClosedCaptions #RiftOfTheNecroDancer #Rhythm
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Today, I'm finally finishing the #Hanafuda #Papercraft project. I'll be completing the December Phoenix card, and then if I have time, framing all twelve pieces. All while listening to chill music.
Because I don't have any other projects lined up, I'll be pausing Maker Monday for a while. Come hang out for what might be the final Maker Monday ever!
#GoingLive on https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis NOW! :live:
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Today, I'm finally finishing the #Hanafuda #Papercraft project. I'll be completing the December Phoenix card, and then if I have time, framing all twelve pieces. All while listening to chill music.
Because I don't have any other projects lined up, I'll be pausing Maker Monday for a while. Come hang out for what might be the final Maker Monday ever!
#GoingLive on https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis NOW! :live:
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Help! I'm... no longer trapped in a storybook! The evil Humgrump has gone all meta and knows we're in a book where I'm the hero, so now I have to stop his plans of changing the story. Also bookworms can see the future I guess, and if I don't fix the book, some kid won't become a successful author? I don't know.
I'm playing The Plucky Squire by dev All Possible Futures! #GoingLive now! https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#Stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #IndieGame #ClosedCaptions
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Glass isn't feeling well, so I'm on my own today. I've had a hectic, stressful day, so I'm just gonna play HoloCure for the Mood buff. Come watch me dodge and weave and play with bright colors. Might play a challenge mode if I feel like it. #GoingLive now at https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#Stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #IndieGame #ClosedCaptions
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Alright, time for a new game! I've heard a lot of good things about this storybook adventure, it's time to check out The Plucky Squire by developer All Possible Futures.
#GoingLive NOW! https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#Stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #ClosedCaptions #IndieGame
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Okay, making up for yesterday, I'm #GoingLive with Maker Monday on Tuesday! Continuing my #papercraft #hanafuda cards. This is where I am now. Come join me for chill vibes and chill music. https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
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HoloCure! My goals today:
- Unlock the last item (via achievement in image)
- Finish the Armory (find the last collab and super collab)
- Level up more holomems!#GoingLive NOW at https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #ClosedCaptions #HoloLive #HoloCure
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HoloCure! My goals today:
- Unlock the last item (via achievement in image)
- Finish the Armory (find the last collab and super collab)
- Level up more holomems!#GoingLive NOW at https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #ClosedCaptions #HoloLive #HoloCure
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It's Maker Monday! Today I'm cutting out as much as I can for the November #papercraft #hanafuda card. Ono no Michikaze, the founder of Japanese calligraphy, walking among the willows, watching a frog try to jump to the branch. There's a lot going on here!
Come hang out and give me stuff to talk about. Or just join and enjoy the chill vibes and music. https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#GoingLive #Stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #ClosedCaptions #Art
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There's a new HoloCure update, so I'm playing it. https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #GoingLive #ClosedCaptions #HoloLive #HoloCure -
There's a new HoloCure update, so I'm playing it. https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #GoingLive #ClosedCaptions #HoloLive #HoloCure -
There's a new HoloCure update, so I'm playing it. https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis
#stream #Streaming #SmallStreamer #GoingLive #ClosedCaptions #HoloLive #HoloCure
