- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 00:09:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anna Cavender <annacc@google.com>
- cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, public-texttracks@w3.org, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Anna Cavender wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > 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. > > Not *yet* :). If this use case is derailing this thread, feel free to > focus on the other important ones presented by others, though I think it > will be important for WebVTT to support in the future. I thought there was a bug on this already, but I can't find it (I checked the WONTFIX, LATER, REMIND, and NEEDSINFO bugs too...). Anyway, if you want live video-conferencing captioning supported, please do file a bug on this so we can consider what it requires. (Probably needs close coordination with WebRTC.) > > It also doesn't require roll-up captions. > > Note that Silvia's proposal of a "Region" would allow much more than > just roll-up (in my example, an append). The key is to consider use cases first, not solutions first. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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