Re: Proposal from HbbTV

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Jon Piesing <Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com> wrote:
>>If a text track never exposes any cues, we shouldn't expose its existence to browsers. That's like saying: hey, I have some data, but I won't give it to you. Or if we apply that logic to an audio or video stream: it's like announcing that a video stream exists, but not rendering it. Such tracks are not relevant to this specification.
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> What about text tracks that are rendered by the (native) media player and where HTML would like to be able to enable/disable them in the same way as video & audio?

If the UA renders the captions together with the video, then for all
intents and purposes this is an additional video track with burnt-in
captions that should be exposed in the @videoTracks attribute of the
MediaElement with a kind="captions" . This way, it is listed as an
available extra video track.

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:39:08 UTC