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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2016-05-04 10:53 am
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You tube question

 How many people can see the occasional captions in this video?
I can see them, but I know several other people can't.

Does anyone know why they're only visible to some people?

(I put a correction to the instructions in the captions, so I'd really like them to be visible...)


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[identity profile] dumain.com 2016-05-04 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't see the captions until I clicked the CC button. The captions seem to be off by default on any video as even if I turn them on in one video and then play another they aren't present. So presumably not your browser/youtube remembering a prior setting. As to why some people see the captions by default possibly the flash player behaves differently to the html5 player(I'm using the html5 player).
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[personal profile] feng_shui_house 2016-05-04 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! My bum eyes didn't notice the little CC box (or knew what it was). I clicked the CC and there are CAPTIONS!! YAY!

[identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com 2016-05-04 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What time and whereabouts in the frame are they supposed to be?
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2016-05-04 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The first caption is about 6 seconds into the video.
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2016-05-04 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The captions appear near the bottom of the screen.

[identity profile] alex-holden.livejournal.com 2016-05-04 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see them after clicking on the "Subtitles/closed captions" button to show them in the player. My language setting is "English (United Kingdom)"; I wonder if the subtitles don't work if your browser defaults to a different language.

YouTube also has a way to add speech bubbles called "Annotations". If you use those, the text always appears over the video regardless of whether Subtitles are turned on in the player.

[identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com 2016-05-04 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't see them, but some fiddling turned the subtitles on and then I could. Not the best solution: best would be to add them to the actual video so they are part of the image.

[identity profile] rpdom.livejournal.com 2016-05-05 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
This was the answer for me too. Enabling subtitles in the Settings menu (cog wheel) in the video.

[identity profile] la-avispa.livejournal.com 2016-05-06 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
I think, the default language of my browser is Russian. But it was not the language. When I press the button "subtitles" I can see them!
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