Template talk:Closed captions

Proposal

• I propose we add a link to the mwEmbed gadget to highlight the fact the subtitles can be played back "inline" and multiple languages that can be selected. Can work similar to the User:MediaBot page using the <span class="videonojs"> {{Localized msg about installing mwEmbed gadget }} </span> Mdale (talk) 01:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, good idea. Do it. --Slomox (talk) 02:06, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Display the language instead of the links

Is it possible that the template displays the language of the linked captions instead of simply the link? as in File:Elephants Dream.ogg "Elephants Dream.ogg.en.srt" should be "English" or "English caption"... --Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 09:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

It's not possible with normal wiki-syntax. It would be possible by exploiting some extremely ugly template-hacks (see w:en:Template:Str sub and other string manipulation templates). Or it would be possible with Javascript. --Slomox (talk) 13:32, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Suggest link to media

See TimedText talk:051118-WSIS.2005-Richard.Stallman.ogg.en.srt for an example of what I mean. It seems that even if a reader finds these timed text files, they will have difficulty finding the associated video. The "what links here" will not help. Maybe {{Closed captions}} could be enhanced by including the media link? -84user (talk) 21:28, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Italian translation of template stuff

User:Viscontino posted this at TimedText:Closed cap.it.srt

1 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400 Testo che deve essere mostrato dal secondo 20 al secondo 24

2 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,800 Testo che deve essere mostrato dal secondo 24 e 600 millesimi al secondo 27 e 800 millesimi

WhisperToMe (talk) 04:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Template is wrong

On TimedText talk:Elephants Dream.ogv.nl.srt there is a link "Full list of subtitles." which links to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/TimedText:Elephants_Dream.ogg.nl.srt. , which is empty.

Also until the software links back to the media description page, this template should link to File:Elephants_Dream.ogg.

John Vandenberg ^(chat) 10:32, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

yeah. it works okay only if the template is used on the file itself: File:Elephants Dream.ogg --アンタナナ 10:43, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Support user language

Is it reasonable/possible to detect the user language and highlight it if it exists (and even transclude it?) or give easy direct link for the user to create a translation in their language. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 19:30, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Three-letter language codes

Does the template have issues with three-letter ISO codes? It looks like only languages with two-letter ISO codes are shown in the list. Al12si (talk) 12:24, 18 April 2023 (UTC)