Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Anna Cavender wrote:
> 
> To clarify, I was proposing live captioning for video conferencing, not 
> instant messaging and not necessarily roll-up, as a use case for the 
> Region.  There exist proposals to use WebVTT in DASH [1] and HLS [2], so 
> this isn't too far fetched.  A Region would enable appending of cues as 
> a captioner types.

That's certainly an interesting use case, but it's not one currently 
supported by WebVTT really, at least, not one it was designed to support.

It also doesn't require roll-up captions.

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