[Video at Xiph] Question about how your video got created ...

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ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
>> My question (Q1) is that it seemed your ogg file,
>> has embedded text (in several languages),
>> as part of the video file itself. Is there
>> an Open Source program that combines them,
>> and that you have used?
>>     
>
> You can go two ways about this: create all those at the same time,
> or add the subtitles after the fact. For both, you need a text file with
> the subtitles. SRT format is easiest, and is simple and well known.
>
> The first way (creating everything at once) is easiest if you use
> ffmpeg2theora to convert the video. ffmpeg2theora has options to
> add subtitles. See subtitles.txt in the ffmpeg2theora distribution, or
> http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ffmpeg2theora/subtitles.txt
>
> The other way (adding subtitles after the fact) requires kateenc
> (from libkate) and oggz-merge (from liboggz). The first one creates
> an Ogg file from a SRT file, and the second merges it with another
> Ogg file (your video).
>
> Both methods are described here:
> http://code.google.com/p/libkate/wiki/CreatingKateStreams
>
> Last, while such embedded subtitle streams are suported by
> Cortado, they will not display if you play the video using Firefox's
> native Ogg player, or Chrome's, which will need xiphmont's
> Javascript instead. If the user downloads your video though,
> VLC can play the embedded streams.
>
> I can't help on the speech recognition area, I'm afraid.
>