Adding Subtitles to Channels with XML feeds

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Hi,
I am new to roku development. I have successfully gone through the majority of the steps in the “How Do I Start Developing a Channel?” post in this forum, and manage to get the videoplayer example with xml feeds working. I want to add subtitle capability to this app allowing a user to watch the videos with subtitles if they please. I noticed the simplevideoplayer example, as well as the entry in the Roku Developer Blog covering the CaptionRender example (link below), both cover adding subtitles in the BightScript (*.brs) file. How can I do this for an app using xml feeds like the videoplayer example in the SDK? Thanks in advance for the help.

http://blog.roku.com/developer/2014/01/ … evelopers/

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add a tag like:

<srt>http://myserver.com/videos/myvideo.srt</srt>

to your xml:

item sdImg="http://rokudev.roku.com/rokudev/examples/videoplayer/images/JeffHan.jpg" hdImg="http://rokudev.roku.com/rokudev/examples/videoplayer/images/JeffHan.jpg">
		<title>Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen</title>
      <srt>http://myserver.com/videos/myvideo.srt</srt>
		<contentId>10061</contentId>
		<contentType>Talk</contentType>
		<contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
		<streamFormat>mp4</streamFormat>
		<media>
			<streamQuality>SD</streamQuality>
			<streamBitrate>1500</streamBitrate>
			<streamUrl>http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/JeffHan_2006_480.mp4</streamUrl>
		</media>
		<synopsis>After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that just might herald the end of the point-and-click era.</synopsis>
		<genres>Design</genres>
		<runtime>531</runtime>
	</item>

and in showFeed.brs near the bottom:


        item.SubtitleURL=validstr(curShow.srt.GetText())
        item.SDBifUrl= validstr(curShow.sdBifUrl.GetText())
        item.StreamFormat = validstr(curShow.streamFormat.GetText())

That should do the trick, assuming you have a valid .srt file.

  • Joel
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That worked perfectly. Thanks a lot.