Re: Timed Text was Re: on SRT...

I think that probably makes sense, but I haven't looked at the details;  also, the profile definitions don't seem to permit semantic constraints such as time-ordering.

They might have removed DFXP from the title, but there are 'more than 100 matches' [Safari] in the document itself... :-(

I don't think SMIL Text has either traction (like SRT) or is so well targetted (as TTML), so I don't currently see reason to pick it up.


On Feb 23, 2010, at 13:16 , Matt May wrote:

> That was, effectively, where we ended up. The support for Timed Text in Flash is a subset of the whole spec, though we are building on that support. If you're thinking about live use cases (or cases where you're importing media with existing roll-up captions), that would expand the scope of things, but unless I'm mistaken, HTML5 video isn't there yet.
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> How would you feel about an HTML5 profile of TTML (<- new name for DFXP as of the CR released today[1]) that at least matches the Presentation Profile?
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/
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> On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:38 AM, David Singer wrote:
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>> I don't have a problem with DFXP, but I think we'll need to profile it -- it contains elements for support of (for example) 3GPP Timed Text, such as scroll-in, and also for out-of-time-order sequencing, neither of which I think we want in this case, do we?
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>> On Feb 22, 2010, at 15:41 , Matt May wrote:
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>>> On Feb 22, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>> What do you think about smilText compared to DFXP? It has been
>>>> stipulated that smilText may be easier to integrate with HTML.
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>>> That may be, but I don't see that as sufficient reason to choose it over DFXP. For that to be a selling point, I think it'd have to be more tightly integrated with HTML5 than I think either the Editor or the implementers on this list are interested in. But that's just MHO. 
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>>> If we're talking about inserting code directly into the HTML DOM, from what I've seen of it, I think smilText and DFXP are a wash. Syntactically, though, DFXP is _much_ more HTML-like. By which I mean, it's HTML (head, body, div, span, p, br) with media-specific attributes. For content producers who are already familiar with HTML, DFXP would quite likely be easier to grok than either smilText or SRT.
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>> David Singer
>> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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