topic Metadata for Video Content in Alfresco Archive

Metadata for Video Content

xkahn — Wed, 21 May 2014 19:20:12 GMT

I store quite a bit of video content in my Alfresco server. In general, users upload videos in one of a few supported formats, and I deliver the videos back using the <video> tag. A while back, I added the ability to associate multiple video formats together to let the user's browser select th

Re: Metadata for Video Content

rgauss — Wed, 21 May 2014 20:27:29 GMT

Hi xkahn,

We'll be working on the intrinsic metadata shortly [1], and caption support is on the roadmap [2].

Feel free to comment on those issues with additional information.

Regards,

Ray

[1] https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MM-203
[2] https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MM-143

Re: Metadata for Video Content

danielf — Thu, 22 May 2014 00:02:00 GMT

Audio should have a language metadata tag as well - English, German, Croatian, etc…

Re: Metadata for Video Content

xkahn — Fri, 23 May 2014 15:59:25 GMT

Hi Ray,

So this looks really good! I'm excited to hear about this effort. How are you planning on handling intrinsic and external text information? For example, a video may have an internal subtitle, but 5 or 6 external caption files.

Re: Metadata for Video Content

xkahn — Fri, 23 May 2014 15:59:58 GMT

Good catch. I missed that.

Re: Metadata for Video Content

lp123 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 10:00:58 GMT

Hi Ray,

We have a requirement to include closed captioning for our videos and I found this old thread discussing their support as a road map item. I haven't found any other reference to these video metadata features in the online documentation.

Please could you provide an update on the current status of these features?

Kind regards,

Lisa Pritchard