You are here: Home Page » News » FCC instructive cabinet recommends embracing a cause of SMPTE Timed Text captioning for online video
Sep 13, 2011 2:35 PM
A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Advisory Committee has endorsed embracing a cause by the group of a typical is to closed-captioning of online video calm created by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), as it implements the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA).
The Act is written to make sure the accessibility, usability and affordability of broadband, wireless and Internet technologies for people with disabilities. The standard, well known as SMPTE Timed Text, was endorsed in a inform by the FCC's Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee (VPAAC). The FCC is reviewing the inform with stakeholders as it writes the CVAA regulations.
In creation its recommendation, the VPAAC remarkable that the SMPTE Timed Text typical is already used in prolongation environments to repurpose radio calm for Internet use; is specified as the heading and underline format is to Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem's UltraViolet format for blurb film and radio content; is specified in breeze standards for Internet radio smoothness in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and other European countries; and is now being used by a few video services and Internet video players.
To hasten the embracing a cause of the closed-captioning standard, SMPTE voiced in May that it was creation SMPTE Timed Text existing giveaway for download. The general outlook document ST 2052-0-2010, the Standard ST 2052-1-2010 and an FAQ about the typical are existing online.
No comments:
Post a Comment