dpa-Video: content now with subtitles

We offer you a large selection of ready-to-broadcast content on the most important topics, also with subtitles.

In our format ‘dpa-digitalwires’, which is based on JSON, we now also supply subtitles as a VTT file in addition to various metadata.

A VTT file or WebVTT file is a text-based file format and a standard format that is used to store time-controlled text tracks for web-based videos.

Each video has the following keys:

• type: The type of the media object. Here video.
• urn: The URN of the video.
• rank: The rank of the video in the order of all associated videos. An integer.
• version: The version of the video. For dpa content an integer.
• version_created: The timestamp of the last version of the video with its time zone, for dpa content usually Europe/Berlin.
• headline: The title of the video.
• caption: The caption of the video.
• transcript: The transcript of the video (optional).
• renditions: A list of objects for the video and the preview.
  • url: The binary object of the video is referenced here via URL. This URL is signed and has an expiration date of approx. 2 days. This should be sufficient to import the video into your own CMS.
  • role: The role of the video. Possible values: poster (preview image), raw (video) and captions (subtitles).
  • mimetype: The mimetype of the rendition.
  • width: The width of the rendition in pixels.
  • height: The height of the rendition in pixels.
  • size: The length of the longer edge in pixels.

In the renditions we provide you with all the objects for download.

Examples are attached below.

      "renditions": [
        {
          "role": "poster",
          "mimetype": "image/jpeg",
          "url": "https://d1vdx0puhh6tge.cloudfront.net/v4/imgresize/crlpre3mve/docid/1aee93ff-a3fb-4dd3-86e6-f3560a9eb0c2/oo7rzxaria-v1-ax-s1200.jpeg?signature=k6emfcJqs_JIy0UQivxq54AK1dk&expires=1742947200",
          "width": null,
          "height": null,
          "size": 1200
        },
        {
          "role": "raw",
          "mimetype": "video/mp4",
          "url": "https://d1vdx0puhh6tge.cloudfront.net/v4/mcp/crlpre3mve/docid/1aee93ff-a3fb-4dd3-86e6-f3560a9eb0c2/oo7rzxaria-v1-ax.mp4?signature=KA2Gjf_DvjvJQXuLSxmOtSW88T0&expires=1742947200",
          "width": 1920,
          "height": 1080,
          "size": null
        },
        {
          "role": "captions",
          "mimetype": "text/vtt",
          "url": "https://d1vdx0puhh6tge.cloudfront.net/v4/mcat/crlpre3mve/docid/1aee93ff-a3fb-4dd3-86e6-f3560a9eb0c2/oo7rzxaria-v1-ax.vtt?signature=8Da9zbGOvCW6O5MkUH00n233Q3M&expires=1742947200",
          "width": null,
          "height": null,
          "size": null
        }
      ]