Buonasera,

Volevo chiedere un aiuto per quanto riguarda la parte tecnica dell'ultima LocJam. Dopo aver completato il file .vtt, in nessuno modo riesco a collegarlo con il file html fornito. Inoltre, anche riuscendo, la piattaforma non mi permette di inserire la mia entry per qualche strano motivo. Essendo la mia prima sottotitolazione non sono proprio pratico, ma anche guardando su internet e seguendo tutorial su html non sono riuscito a trovare una soluzione. Qualcuno saprebbe darmi una mano? Altrimenti anche solo caricare il file .vtt. Il problema alla base è che non mi mostra i sottotitoli né quando lo carico, ne da client (sia in italiano che in inglese).

Ringrazio in anticipo e mi scuso se l'argomento è già stato trattato. Inoltre, se necessario, riscrivo tutto in inglese (uso l'italiano solo perché spulciando il forum ho visto che la utilizzavate)

Hello,

I just checked: the usual browser didn't catch the modified subtitles, but when I created the draft project and uploaded the archive there (with the modified index.html and modified night_of_the_living_dead.vtt files inside), the player on the project page shows the correct modified subtitles.

To edit the index file you can use any text editor (I used Notepad++), the subtitles file is highlighted on the screenshot:

So it could be the in-browser viewing issue.

Thank you GilShrewmouse

For clarity: there is zero need to touch the HTML file. All you guys need to do is download the package with the two files, unzip, replace the content of the vtt file with yours, rezip and upload. Hope it helps!

Also, remember that SUBTITLES CAN ONLY BE SEEN ONLINE. If you open the html on your local system, the browser will simply refuse to load them (safety measures)

Oh no! I also have a problem: I translated the .vtt file to Polish (via a CAT tool that has a filter for them, so I am sure I did NOT break any of the… scaffolding 😂(essential file elements, tags, timing labels etc.)), then renamed it, because the CAT tool attached a _pl bit to it (so ultimately/after my modifications it had the name night_of_the_living_dead.vtt; just like the original one! And as it SHOULD be), deleted the original (English) subs file from the archive and replaced it with the Polish one; zipped the two files together (no "archive within an archive"/double layered nonsense this time! Just chose the two files and clicked Compress (or whatever this command is in English Windows OS; mine is obviously PL). Then created a new project, uploaded the ZIP… and well… the video works, but WHERE ON EARTH are my subtitles??? They don’t display! Also, for now the project is just on my PERSONAL Itch profile. Have not submitted it to LOCJam yet. It already has public status though. Does that mean I must dive into the index file and change "srclang" variable from "en" to "pl"?? (And make a NEW zip…)And here I hoped there would be no problems…😭