- From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:24:38 +0000
- To: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr>
- CC: "<public-html-media@w3.org>" <public-html-media@w3.org>
On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Cyril Concolato wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Small question.
>
> Le 10/01/2013 17:25, Aaron Colwell a écrit :
>> I'd like to propose that we add the following extensions to AudioTrack, VideoTrack, TextTrack, and SourceBuffer in the MSE spec.
>>
>> partial interface AudioTrack {
>> attribute DOMString kind;
>> attribute DOMString language;
>> readonly attribute SourceBuffer sourceBuffer;
>> }
>>
>> partial interface VideoTrack {
>> attribute DOMString kind;
>> attribute DOMString language;
>> readonly attribute SourceBuffer sourceBuffer;
>> }
> What is this language attribute used for in a video track? Is it a mistake or is it made to make handling of tracks generic ?
Video with embedded ("burned in") subtitles/captions and sign language videos are examples of videos with a language.
Of course, you would not use burned in subtitles/captions if you had an alternative, but for some old content these are the only subtitles/captions available.
…Mark
>
> Regards,
> Cyril
>
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