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wayne
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:12 pm    Post subject: Unicode in SAMI? Reply with quote
Does anyone know how to use unicode in SAMI?
If I save the SMI file as ASNI - it looses the unicode characters.
If I save the SMI file as "Unicode" or "UTF-8" - then it won't play
correctly with WMP.
Any ideas?

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital M
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:03 am    Post subject: Re: Unicode in SAMI? Reply with quote
That's weird, it works OK for me - ref :
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.tools/browse_thread/thread/55ff1f1837afb440/360f5def8e0cbf04?q=SAMI+unicode+windows+media&rnum=6&hl=en#360f5def8e0cbf04

What language settings do you have selected in the player under
Play->Captions & Subtitles->Defaults for Captions & Subtitles ?

Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:12:01 -0700, "wayne"
<wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Quote:
Does anyone know how to use unicode in SAMI?
If I save the SMI file as ASNI - it looses the unicode characters.
If I save the SMI file as "Unicode" or "UTF-8" - then it won't play
correctly with WMP.
Any ideas?
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wayne
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Unicode in SAMI? Reply with quote
Will the WMV link to the caption file dynamically - while it is playing, or
is the caption information embedded into the file as script commands of
"text" type?
I would prefer to have it linked dynamically so that whenever we update the
captions (make changes, fix typos, add another language) - it won't have to
be re-encoded/re-published etc..

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital M
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Unicode in SAMI? Reply with quote
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:36:13 -0700, "wayne"
<wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Quote:
Will the WMV link to the caption file dynamically - while it is playing, or
is the caption information embedded into the file as script commands of
"text" type?

If it's a .SMI then it's a separate file. Keeping this under the same
path (directory) as the media file should be enough for the player to
pick it up, as it queries the server a second time for a file in the
server's media directory of the same name (but ending in .smi rather
than .wmv)

So if your file was say
http://myserver.com/videos/myvideo.wmv

Then you should see an access in your server logs for
http://myserver.com/videos/myvideo.smi

Quote:
I would prefer to have it linked dynamically so that whenever we update the
captions (make changes, fix typos, add another language) - it won't have to
be re-encoded/re-published etc..

Append the following (example) to the path to the video file and the
player will pick it up : ?sami=http://myserver.com/videos/myvideo.smi

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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wayne
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Unicode in SAMI? Reply with quote
Can you send me an example of a SMI that has unicode characters?
wwalker@dts.edu
Thanks,
~wayne
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