Kaltura - How to display captions for media in Kaltura MediaSpace
This document explains how to display captions on a media item in Kaltura MediaSpace. To request machine captions, see Kaltura - Ordering machine captions for media in Kaltura MediaSpace
We highly encourage you to edit your captions to improve their accuracy. Inaccurate captions can cause confusion for your viewers. To do so, click the pencil icon in the Captions Requests window. Instructions on editing captions are available in Kaltura - How to edit captions in Kaltura MediaSpace .
- To show your captions click the Actions drop-down menu and select Edit:
- Click the Captions tab.
- Your machine caption will be listed with the language you previously selected:
- Click the pencil icon / edit function and update the label for your captions. If the captions are machine captioned and have not been reviewed and edited for accuracy, your label should include "machine captioned" in it. For example "English: machine captioned". This will help indicate that your captions are not as accurate.
- Once your captions are reviewed for accuracy and the captions are labeled appropriately, publish your captions by clicking the Show on Player icon on the far right to display captions to users.
- The complete list of actions you can take on a caption file include from left to right:
Set as Default - Sets the caption as the default caption for a video.
Edit - Edit the language and the caption label that displays to viewers. If you click the Edit icon, it will change to a Save icon which you will need to click after editing the language or label for a caption.
Delete - Delete the caption from your media.
Download - Download the caption file in .SRT format.
Show on Player - Shows the caption as an option for users to display on a video. Machine generated captions are not shown by default so users don't see inaccurate captions. Once you've clicked this the icon will change to a Don't Show on Player icon.
- You may need to refresh your browser window to get the CC button to display on the Kaltura media player. The CC (for Closed Captions)button in the lower right to display the closed captions during playback. Click on CC to display the closed caption options and select English (or the appropriate language) to display them: