Re: Systematic access to media/plugin metadata

Laura -

On Apr 12, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Laura Carlson wrote:

> 
> Silvia, maybe accessing video and audio transcripts would be a another
> use case to add. I don't know. Would that be applicable? Transcripts
> may be embedded in a video but when people are on a dialup modem, (I
> am a majority of the time), they have no way to obtain that transcript
> unless the author remembers to supply a link to the transcript in the
> body of the document. In this use case they are locked out of all
> video content.
> 
  Textual transcripts embedded in a video file are available to script though the Track API [1].

eric

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/video.html#sourcing-in-band-text-tracks

Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:39:13 UTC