Re: Roll-up captions in WebVTT

On Dec 18, 2011, at 8:20 , Glenn Maynard wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
>>> It's not backwards, but if you havn't seen it in realtime and don't know
>>> what I'm talking about, the above description probably isn't enough.  Let me
>>> know if you want a more detailed description (or I'll dig out an example).
>> 
>> I've seen it in some Karaoke videos, but never with actual captions.
> 
> All subtitles I've seen work that way.
> https://zewt.org/~glenn/overlapped-caption-example.mpg  That's a
> relatively complex example, with multiple disconnected streams of
> dialogue, and I find it easy to follow while still paying attention to
> the actual video.

I find that quite confusing, myself.
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 19 December 2011 17:04:46 UTC