Seek to text

[selfsimilar]

This maybe out of scope for the project, but it would be amazing to support links in the transcription text to the corresponding points in the video. See http://www.subply.com/en/Products/InterActiveTranscript.htm as an example. My use case is incorporating transcription text into site-wide search and resolving the search to the appropriate point in the video.

Just to clarify, it's not clear to me if the API supports this use case easily.

[cgiffard]

Generally speaking, the API does not directly facilitate this kind of functionality. However, I have built similar products using VTT captions to generate seek-to-text transcripts before. (See: http://dispatch.media.gbuild.net/video/179)

I can't provide you with any specific server-side source code from that example, since I no longer work for the organisation in question. But it is possible! I just build the transcript itself from the VTT file, and when I do, add some microdata specifying the start and end points for a given cue.