Re: Linking to a time-stamped portion of a video resource

Thank you, Janina - let’s consider the details at the meeting today.
It also wasn’t clear from what I read that one could specify a time range in the link, rather than only a start time. All of the examples I found gave only a starting time offset from the beginning of the recorded media.

> On Apr 19, 2023, at 04:15, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> I believe it's in the HTML 5 specs, but it may be the two media specs
> from our Timed Text WG, Web VTT and TTML.
> 
> The feature is called "Chapters." It is unilevel, unfortunately. Much as
> we tried to get nested structures into HTML 5, we did not succeed at
> that.
> 
> I have begun raising the prospect of markup for Chapters. I believe we
> want to support AAC symbol alternatives, and possible sign authoring
> (e.g. ASL). Michael Cooper is in conversations with a group looking to
> bring a sign authoring spec into W3C, probably to start in a Community
> Group.
> 
> More when we talk!
> 
> Janina
> 
> Jason White writes:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> For purposes of our media and transcript synchronization conversation
>> tomorrow, I've undertaken research online. It appears that some video
>> players support URIs with fragment identifiers that enable you to specify a
>> timestamp in a video. Thus, it should be possible to link to a specific time
>> offset.
>> 
>> According to the discussions that I read, only some media players support
>> this feature. I have not as yet found any reference to a standard for it.
>> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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