Display Signbank video when hovering over a gloss in the timeline

[ocrasborn]

• See #7
• Plus preference setting to switch this feature on-off (similar to preference 'Show tooltips')

[vanlummelhuizen]

@ocrasborn For now I implemented this so that if you hold the Ctrl button while hovering over a annotation, it will show the video. You could test this with the latest jar, but you will have the CV videos in order.

[ocrasborn]

Note: the videos on a mac have to be in ~/Library/Preferences/ELAN/videos/cvvideos// @vanlummelhuizen:

• what is the Windows and Linux path?
• I now have the videos organised in the two-character subfolders under the above path, like on the Signbank server. Would it also work without those subfolders? That would be desirable for non-Signbank users, as it's more simple.

[vanlummelhuizen]

@ocrasborn Linux: ~/.elan_data/videos/cvvideos Windows: C:\Users\<username>\.elan_data\videos\cvvideos

I will remove the two-character subfolder.

The reference to the folder containing CV videos could be based on the CV name, so <..>/.elan_data/videos/cvvideos/<CV_name>/gloss0001.mpg etc. The videos should be named using the entry ID plus extension. This could mean users needs to do some renaming before being able to use the videos.

[ocrasborn]

• Works fine, but first a white rectangle is painted at the top of the ELAN window, before the video window appears in the timeline.
• For glosses at the right edge of the screen, the video window falls off the screen; would it be possible to paint it on the left side of the drop-down list in those cases?

[henrinie]

@vanlummelhuizen Didn't know where I should ask this, sorry for picking an old issue. I have a couple of questions:

• Are you planning, or could you implement this feature in a way that would allow showing the videos directly from an URL?
• Do you have any idea if the HTTPS issue with ELAN has been solved?

[vanlummelhuizen]

No problem.

I am afraid showing videos directly from a URL is not something that I will be able to implement anytime soon.

The HTTPS issue is not solved because ELAN on Mac still uses Java6. I am not sure whether Han Sloetjes (main developer of ELAN) is in the process of rewriting things for higher versions of Java. The work around we used involved a downgrade of the server's SSL/TLS certificate. Not ideal but necessary to keep people working with ELAN+Signbank.

[ocrasborn]

Han tells me he is working on that bit by bit, yes. Should still take quite some time (min. few months, if not more).

[henrinie]

@ocrasborn Thanks for the update on that, great to hear that it is being worked on!