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Add option to create subtitle tracks to VideoJS player
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We have an option to create a subtitle track in the old Kaltura player. Our new player doesn't have this yet.

The option is basically a link to the File name, but then in the TimedText namespace. This is considered to be the 'root' for all language variants of the the subtitles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText%3AFolgers.ogv

The challenge is to determine WHERE to add this option. Hiding it in the menu never was very discoverable, but worse, in the new player the entire menu is hidden if there are no tracks.

An option might be to add them via some sort of hover menu, and have a drop down there. Perhaps together with an embed and a share dialog ?

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TheDJ triaged this task as Low priority.
TheDJ moved this task from Bugs to Active on the VideoJS player board.

Change 758070 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Add a 'create captions' option to the subtitle menu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/758070

Change 758070 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Add a 'create captions' option to the subtitle menu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/758070

The current change has the unfortunate effect of ALWAYS showing the subtitle menu (similar to the old Kaltura). Ideally at some point I'd like to move the option to create subtitles for media without subtitles into some sort of menu.

Calling this fixed for now. We can always redesign the interface, but lets just take one step at a time.