Video annotations in HTML5

[sglover]

The business I am interning for has videos that I want to convert from Flash to HTML5 which contain annotations/ interactive components in them. I know I will lose the interactive components when I convert them over, but is there any way to re-insert them into the video?

Please Help! Thank you

[zcorpan]

You can overlay them over the video. For now you sync them with the video by using setInterval and polling currentTime (see "How to keep things synchronized" in http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/ever ... and-audio/ ).

A better API to sync stuff is in the works (along with support for captions; see http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... med-tracks ).

[sglover]

Thanks for the reply. I'll check it out

-Sarah

[JAB Creations]

A big warning: H.264 is patent encumbered so if you want to avoid opting your company in to giant bills from the people in Hollywood suing grandmothers ensure you use a codec that is absolutely free to use.