Media Lesson Subtitles: Initial Feedback

Version 3 Beta (2015-06-08)

A huge thank you to Fay (and everyone else involved) for the brilliant new Media Lesson page. It's going to make a massive difference to us in Modern Languages!

I'm just trying out the subtitle feature and have noticed a couple of things:

1) When the I have two panels in the grid formation, the subtitles appear centred across the whole page. Because of the panel borders, this can appear a bit strange. If I change the layout to 'Left full, tiled right', for instance, the subtitles appear within the media panel, which is what I would expect.

2) If I add a second line to my subtitles, when I go back to edit them, the number of lines is doubled (after each existing line a new blank line is added) and so I get four lines in total. Even if I remove these in the editor, there still appears to be a large gap between the two lines of subtitles when played.

3) I'm not sure how well the position option of top/bottom works. If top is selected, the subtitles appear over the header. If bottom is selected, I feel the need to insert an extra empty line for aesthetic reasons but then run into issue 2 above. Also, is there any possibility of having an option which displays the subtitle directly below the media?

As far as priorities are concerned, I can live with / work around points 1 and 3 as they are at the moment but point two would cause me to waste a lot of time.

Best wishes
David

Hi David, thanks for the feedback. I'll look into these issues this week - it certainly sounds like things aren't working as expected.

Fay

David, are you using videos from Vimeo? I can't recreate your problems 1 & 3 with uploaded videos but there do seem to be some problems with Vimeo subtitles. I'll look into the Vimeo problems now but if it's an uploaded video you're having problems with can you let me know what browser you're using please so I can see if I can recreate this.
Thanks

These issues are now fixed (assuming it's with Vimeo videos)

Hi Fay
Yes, it was with Vimeo. As soon as the next update is published in the download section, I'll try it out again.
Thanks

Hi Fay
Just tried the subtitles again with a Vimeo video and everything seems to be working really well now.
Great job!