RE : [Moderator Action] Bugs and TT (was TT and subtitling)

>>> Current multimedia standards (eg SMIL) are generally not appropriate
>>> for subtitling.
>>
>> That's a tad broad.
>
> I have looked at SMIL and Quicktime and cannot see how to reconcile
> the timing aspects of these standards with the timecode in an external
> broadcast signal (where the timecode may be discontinuous due to advert
> insertion). Comments please?

My throw-it-out-there-and-see-what-sticks Proposal 0.0, which uses the
SMIL timing model, illustrates how relative timing works.  The SMIL timing
model also supports absolute timing.

-- Charles Wiltgen