Closed Captioning Files for videos from Rebol and Red Community

There are some crowdsourced websites like Amara.org which are designed to allow people to more organically contribute translations to videos. So having a GitHub repository may not be the best long-term solution, especially since there will be some redundancy of timing information between the .SRT files.

But this is just a start. And as a start, the plan is to make a directory for each video project, and then have people put a file in that directory with the language abbreviation and ending in .srt.

Feedback welcome, please feel free to discuss Rebol and Red chat room

It can raise the awareness that cpations are available if the captions show up by default, and have to be turned off. There isn't a checkbox or anything in the YouTube video manager interface to do set this option, the tricky way of doing it is to add a tag to your video that says yt:cc=on.

If you use Amara to generate closed caption files, it will escape things like quotes as &quot or apostrophes as '. Amara suggests the ability to handle HTML markup, or Markdown, but YouTube will not accept these (at least if you're importing as SRT). So be sure to fix those up.