[Bug 14291] <track> example: brave.en.vtt for both subtitles and captions?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14291

--- Comment #4 from Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> 2011-09-26 13:19:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Subtitles are for "when the sound is available" while captions are for "when
> the soundtrack is unavailable". In other words, they are mutually exclusive --
> the same file can't both have the HoH captions and not have them.

Maybe that wording is unfortunate. A file can have captions even when it has a
sound track - captions are typically for people who can't hear that sound track
(because they are deaf or the noise is too loud or the sound is turned off).

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Received on Monday, 26 September 2011 13:19:30 UTC