There may be delays between when Hulu puts videos online...
There may be delays between when Hulu puts videos online and when captioning’s available, lawyers for the website told front-office FCC staffers of the Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureaus. “In many cases Hulu must manually synchronize captions to…
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video programming in a process that is highly labor-intensive and time consuming,” said a filing Friday in docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/bnbhun). The website, which consists primarily of broadcast TV shows and is owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Disney and News Corp., said it “dedicates significant resources to ensuring the precise synchronization of the caption files and video programming that it ingests.” The website’s understanding of commission captioning display rules is they can be satisfied if video programming distributors that provide apps or plugins implement a Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers timed text format, the filing said. Hulu said engineers for the website will discuss with agency officials at their request its apps and tools for syncing video programming and captioning files.