- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:49:53 -0700
- To: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
At 18:25 -0400 28/08/08, Maurice wrote: >What about separate files for sub-titles? In the fan-subbing scene >it's common for videos to be distributed without any subtitles and >then many people around the world do their own translation and share >the text files with the web. > If the user is supplying ancillary data, then in some sense that's outside the scope of the HTML5 'contract' between the page author an dthe user-agent, I think. >What if I actually have a single video (no audio) and multiple audio >files, each in a different language. >Could I somehow sync the video and selected audio file by having >them start playing simultaneously? You should lay these up into what HTML5 sees as a single media resource, either using a track-structured file format like QuickTime or MP4, or using SMIL or other integration layer. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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