Re: HTML WG Note publication of sourcing in-band media resources

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
>
>>> Finally, does ISO BMFF have SDH (subtitles for the deaf or
>>> hard-of-hearing) as a separate flag from the subtitle and captions
>>> kinds, or is possible to assign an arbitrary number of kinds to a
>>> track? Either way it doesn't sound like it maps 1:1 to the HTML track
>>> kinds.
>>
>> That's what I tried to say: since the ISO BMFF 'SDH' track contains
>> both 'SDH' and 'subtitles' cues, it should be mapped to both a
>> @kind='captions' track and also a @kind='subtitles' track where the
>> cues that are marked to be for SDH only are removed.
>
> Are the individual cues really marked with that metadata? If they
> aren't, then exposing such a single track with kind 'captions' seems
> like the correct mapping.

I was under that impression, but I haven't been able to confirm this.
Maybe somebody else with actual MPEG4 specs can confirm / refute that
assumption?

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Monday, 19 May 2014 12:12:48 UTC