Better Transcript

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Context

obsidian-yt-transcript was integrated with media-extend through a button in the three dot menu called "Open Transcript".
The issue mentioning this integration is #192 and the link to the code base where obsidian-yt-transcript is mentioned can be found here.

Details

However, the transcript that media-extend breaks up every section of the transcript like in YouTube while the obsidian-yt-transcript plugin makes the Time Stamp Intervals wider by default. Here is a comparison with the obsidian-yt-transcript on the left and the media-extend transcript on the right.

Users can also change the in the Time Stamp Interval in the obsidian-yt-transcript settings to make the transcript for each time stamp longer. I wasn't able to find this option in the settings for media-extend.

Problem(s)

The problem is that if users want to copy sections of the transcript, they have to manually remove every timestamp that gets copied over, remove the extra spacing, and connect the text.
This is a problem with the transcript media-extend generates, since one of the major uses of a transcript is copying sections of text in the transcript. At least, that's the main reason why I open any transcript.

Potential Solution(s)

• Change the default Time Stamp Interval for the transcript generated by media-extend to an interval similar to obsidian-yt-transcript.
• Add the option to change the interval in the s=plugin settings for media-extend like obsidian-yt-transcript.
• Add a shortcut option to paste the previous 5, 10, and 30 seconds from the Transcript in a paragraph format into the current note.

Links

obsidian-yt-transcript and media-extend Integration Issue: #192
obsidian-yt-transcript in code base:

media-extended/apps/app/src/web/session/youtube.ts

Line 30 in 7d94ac8

// derive from https://github.com/lstrzepek/obsidian-yt-transcript