Re: Rounding with #xywh=percent:25,25,50,50

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:43:31 +0200, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>> I'm not thrilled by extending the xywh syntax beyond what we have  
>> (pixels and integer percentages), nor by dropping percentages  
>> altogether.
>
> Same, integer percentages are not meant to do aspect adaptation, there  
> was an 'aspect' keyword in earlier versions, and it was dropped, but  
> maybe in version 2...
> Integer percentages are to address simple use cases, like "50%", not for  
> complex things like aspect ration adaptation that may require some  
> specific things (16:9 -> 4:3 is not always a fixed crop)

What are the use cases for always cropping (say) 50% of the video with a  
precision that gets worse the bigger the video gets and where using the  
pixel syntax is not an option?

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:49:43 UTC