Re: WebVTT Text Positioning

Is the conversion spec not clear enough on this?
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/608toVTT.html

Silvia.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:01 PM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
> For 608 captions, the line height should be (display_height - safe_area)  /
> 15.  The font size should be such that a monospaced letter will fill one
> cell.  How does WebVTT handle this?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
>> > If I want to position CEA608 text at row 10, column 10 the cue might
>> > look
>> > like this:
>> >
>> > Cue-8 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.000 position:35% line:58* align:left
>> > size:25% Tis a test
>> >
>> > There are 10 characters so the size is 10* cell width (2.5%). Wondering
>> > if I
>> > also need to specify the height, which would be one row (5.33%), but I
>> > see
>> > no way to do this with the WebVTT spec. Is line height baked into the
>> > implementation?
>>
>> Line height is set by CSS automatically based on font size, and there
>> is no cue setting for it because there shouldn't be a need to change
>> it. However, you can always set line-height through CSS.
>>
>> Silvia.
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 03:10:27 UTC