Subtitle Video

Some time back, there was a talk of how youTube can make money by showing Ads on its video itself using an overlay. MSN Video also does it (but not as a overlay, which doesnt look good, in my opinion). BrightCove used the overlay mechanism to show/hide their video controls.

Then i came across a blog entry, where he does a rather innovative use of the overlay, to show Subtitles for the video and in different languages. Cool… See it Here

I thought of providing a generalized container overlay to the video and the user can put any renderer he wants, pretty much like the itemRenderers on the FLEX List Componenet. So he can include ads, subtitles and pretty much anything on the overlay. Its still in draft quality, but i thought i’ll share it with you. What i want to impress here is that it can do a lot more with less. Like Ad support. What i mean is, by just changing the renderer in the component, you should be able to switch between subtitles and advertisements on the video… I’ll publish the code as a component when it reaches production quality 🙂

This is the first example, where I have used a custom Box with Anjali’s Marquee component inside it as the containerRenderer. This probably can be used as overlays for videos in various languages to provide subtitles in english

(click on the pic or here to view the application)

The second example is one where 2 ads are being shown alternating while the video plays. What’s to note here, is that we can even synchronize the ads with the content if the videos are tagged. Web2.0 rocks ! I’m not good at Flash Animations and hence the lousy Ads… 🙂

(click on the pic or here to view the application)