Re: Inband styling (was Re: Evidence of 'Wide Review' needed for VTT)

Le 22/10/2015 16:21, Philip Jägenstedt a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Cyril Concolato
> <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote:
>> Le 22/10/2015 16:02, Philip Jägenstedt a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Cyril Concolato
>>> <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote:
>>>> I agree that "if you don't know all of the style up front" you have a
>>>> problem to solve. Nigel already pointed that out, as being useful in
>>>> broadcast where you don't necessarily know in advance all your styles. To
>>>> me, there are 2 main approaches: using timed styles or refreshing untimed
>>>> styles.
>>> I suspect that timed styles would be tricky to implement, in
>>> particular if one considers the ability to "animate" a single cue by
>>> having many timed style blocks between the cue's start and end points.
>> Can you give an example ?
> 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000
> this is a cue
>
> STYLE 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 (or whatever the syntax would be)
> color: red;
>
> STYLE 00:01.000 --> 00:02.000
> color: green;
>
> And so on.
Thanks. I would restrict the cues such that styles applying to a cue 
appear before the cue but indeed you can make funny things that you 
could not do with style headers.
> It would mean that now it's not just the start and end of
> cues that would have to tracked, but one would also need a separate
> list of timed stylesheets and some way of removing stylesheets at
> their end times.
Indeed, with timed styles, you would have to track the styles 
activation/deactivation. That's a drawback. The advantage is more 
flexibility for delivery.

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Cyril Concolato
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