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Subtitles for Vimeo videos not showing + browser compatibility issue
Amara staff are looking into the outstanding issue with "The Eye of the Beholder". Meanwhile, at their suggestion, I messaged "f w", the uploader of its video original, asking if s/he'd object if I reuploaded the video on archive.org, explaining that this would give us a 2nd address from which to stream the video into the Amara page.
So I'd say, let's wait a couple of days, to see whether Amara staff can solve the issue and/or if f w replies.
Hi Claude,
Thank you very much for checking.
Yes. "The Fever" does play well now. I checked twice. I'm so glad.
For me too, "The Eye of the Beholder" continues to show as a black rectangle. However, "The Fever" now plays normally, even after several repeats. Odd: I'll re-report both, anyway.
After I got your mail, I checked four times. "The Eye of the Beholder" is no good as it was.
As for "The Fever", subtitles showed OK and no problem at all for the first time, but for the second, third, fourth time, subtitles didn't show at all.
For me too, the player in http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/joaHwmHQKtMQ/info/thetwilightzones02e06theeyeofthebeholderac3dvdripxvid/ still only appears as a black rectangle without the vimeo timeline and commands (see attached screenshot), even though the vimeo video per se plays correctly .
However, in http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/JPIpwLXt0y0X/info/twilight-zone-s01e17-the-fever/, the subtitles show OK for me - they only start at 1:09, though: did you wait until then?
Thank you, Claude
I got an e-mail saying "Amara Staff have now fixed this problem." But I don't think so.
The problem is with
The timebar ( I don't know how to call it, I mean the bar showing pause, stop, time flow, and Vimeo) never appears even if I put my mouse on the screen, and the video takes a long time to start. Until it starts, only black screen can be seen.
I have one more Vimeo video that I didn't tell before:
http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/JPIpwLXt0y0X/info/twilight-zone-s01e17-the-fever/
This one hasn't been corrected. I'm sorry I didn't check all of my videos, but I created subtitles for almost 200 videos. I didn't know I had to check all of them. I don't remember which is Daily Motion or YouTube or Vimeo. I'll be more careful.
Amara Staff have now fixed this problem. Thank you for reporting it.
sirius shin
I noticed yesterday that subtitles for Vimeo videos didn't show up.I created subtitles for YouTube and Daily Motion, too, and they worked fine.
The Vimeo videos are:
http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/joaHwmHQKtMQ/info/thetwilightzones02e06theeyeofthebeholderac3dvdripxvid/
http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/vPPZICNHQFfv/info/twilight-zone-s01e16-the-hitch-hiker/
http://www.amara.org/ja/videos/CbfRgqRWIvRC/info/twilight-zone-episode-124-a-kind-of-a-stopwatch/