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        Announcing VTT&nbsp;Embed — Add Captions To Embedded YouTube Videos (And Others)
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        I frequently want to embed external videos at work, but can’t because they’re uncaptioned or only have auto-captions. I also occasionally want to embed one on my site, but don’t because I don’t want to serve JavaScript or trackers. So, I created a CGI script to embed external videos using HTML’s native <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element.
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        <del><a href="https://tildegit.org/u9000/vtt-embed">It’s currently on Tildegit</a> while Sourcehut is still recovering from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240112173110/https://sourcehut.org/">Sourcehut–Codeberg DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack</a>, but you can still contribute even if you can’t make an account on Tildegit (see <a href="https://tildegit.org/u9000/vtt-embed/src/branch/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING</a>).</del> <a href="https://sr.ht/~u9000/vtt-embed/">It’s now on Sourcehut</a>. I will keep both up though because Sourcehut’s email-based workflow can pretty easily accommodate pull requests using <code>git request-pull</code>, so there’s no reason not to provide that as an option.
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        I’m pretty exited about this one because I think it’ll actually be useful for people. At the very least, I will definitely get use out of it. It’s also nice because I got the project done in a week and it’s already version 1.0. The only other addition I can think of is making a PHP version if there’s enough demand.
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        I have a <a href="../cgi-bin/vtt-embed.sh">hosted instance</a> if you can’t host your own. If you can, though, that would be appreciated. You can <a href="matrix:r/vtt-embed:matrix.org?action=join" title="#vtt-embed:matrix.org">join the Matrix room</a> if you need any support or have any questions. There is also a <a href="../unlisted/vtt-embed-demo.gmi">demo</a> if you’d like to see it in action.
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