Peter tho Pesch – IRT Lab

Responsive graphics – Fullscreen for everyone!

Peter tho Pesch — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:25:25 +0000

After the switch of the TV format from 4:3 to 16:9, other aspect ratios remained at best a niche product for a long time in the broadcasting industry. But social media are defining entirely new standards on their platforms. This challenges video producers to provide their content to various distribution channels – including the need ...

Testing a VR subtitle production prototype

Peter tho Pesch — Mon, 11 May 2020 06:32:43 +0000

In our earlier post on accessibility services in 360° environments (here) we have described how these services can enhance user experiences and make 360° videos more accessible. In the EU-funded Immersive Accessibility project ImAc subtitles are extended with guiding cues to support easier speaker identification within the 360° space to enhance the user experience and ...

Subtitles in 360° media

Peter tho Pesch — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:21:35 +0000

In a previous post, we discussed the topic of subtitles in a 360° environment. Within the project Immersive Accessibility (ImAc) IRT investigates together with partners from the media industry how accessibility services can be applied to 360° or VR environments. At our demo app webpage (short link: www.irt.de/foxfinder), you can see a short 360° scene ...

Subtitles for 360° media – alternative presentation for immersive experiences

Peter tho Pesch — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:01:35 +0000

Introduction When subtitles are provided in a 360° environment, they are typically fixed at the bottom of the screen and centered horizontally. This is fine for common 2D TV, but maybe is not the best strategy for 360° media. By making use of the additional “dimension”, maybe subtitles can convey more than just textual information. ...

Subtitle Conversion Framework (SCF) v1.0 released

Peter tho Pesch — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:50:00 +0000

IRT recently released version 1.0 of it’s Subtitle Conversion Framework (SCF). The SCF is published under the Apache 2.0 license and is available on github: https://github.com/IRT-Open-Source/scf The SCF provides a set of modules for converting XML based subtitle formats. The modules include features for Transformation from EBU STL to EBU-TT according to the mapping guideline ...

CMAF Livestreams with Subtitles and Audio Description

Peter tho Pesch — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:36:42 +0000

The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) aims at unifying the two currently leading adaptive streaming standards: MPEG-DASH and Apple’s HLS. The sample live streams presented here, demonstrate the potential benefit of CMAF for future OTT IP services. With CMAF, both HLS playlists and DASH manifests are allowed to reference the same fragmented MP4 (fMP4) chunks, ...