I've been working on a project to localize some of our video content for different countries. Most of what shows up on ms.com is in English and that sometimes is challenge for non-English speaking viewers.

The method I have been working on is to make available sub-titles or captions for the content. My ideal implementation will be a Silverlight player that can consume XML files and allow the users to flip to the language they'd like to view and have it sync with the time code of the video. From a project perspective my workflow involves transcribing the video content, translating, than syncing to video.

Making the player that can consume a SAMI file is the trick. Expression Encoder can consume and write the cc on top. One of our Developer Evangelists in the US, Marc Schweigert,  produced a video showing how to caption using EE. Check out his webcast by clicking on the screen shot below.

 

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