Re: WebVTT Positioning

Very helpful.  I totally get line, and align.  A few questions on position
and size.

> To get what you want, you need to set position to 90%

For align:center, do I set postion to 50% (assuming I want text centered in
frame?

Is it necessary to specify size?

Thanks,
D


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
 wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:40 PM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
> > What is the expected presentation of the text below?  My expectation is
> > vertically centered, and to the right of the screen (10% off the edge).
>  Is
> > my understanding of WebVTT positioning correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> > 6
> > 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 align:right  position:10%  size:80%
>  line:50%
> >  [Middle-Right Water Running]
>
> * it's horizontal text, left-to-right
>
> * line:50% says to put it 50% down from the top of the video frame
>
> * position:10% says to put it 10% in from the edge of the frame the
> left of the frame (this is determined by the text direction, not by
> the alignment)
>
> * align:right says that the text is right aligned in its frame (if
> you're trying this in Chrome, I think "right" is not yet supported, so
> you should use "end" instead)
>
> * size:80% says to make the width of the cue 80% that of the frame
> (this calculation has a few bugs in the spec; in particular right now
> it says that if you have right aligned horizontal text, the width of
> the cue can maximally be the width of "position", which in this case
> leads to a 10% wide cue )
>
>
> To get what you want, you need to set position to 90%. I've tested
> this in Chrome and in Opera 12.
>
> HTH,
> Silvia.
>



On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:40 PM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
> > What is the expected presentation of the text below?  My expectation is
> > vertically centered, and to the right of the screen (10% off the edge).
>  Is
> > my understanding of WebVTT positioning correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> > 6
> > 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 align:right  position:10%  size:80%
>  line:50%
> >  [Middle-Right Water Running]
>
> * it's horizontal text, left-to-right
>
> * line:50% says to put it 50% down from the top of the video frame
>
> * position:10% says to put it 10% in from the edge of the frame the
> left of the frame (this is determined by the text direction, not by
> the alignment)
>
> * align:right says that the text is right aligned in its frame (if
> you're trying this in Chrome, I think "right" is not yet supported, so
> you should use "end" instead)
>
> * size:80% says to make the width of the cue 80% that of the frame
> (this calculation has a few bugs in the spec; in particular right now
> it says that if you have right aligned horizontal text, the width of
> the cue can maximally be the width of "position", which in this case
> leads to a 10% wide cue )
>
>
> To get what you want, you need to set position to 90%. I've tested
> this in Chrome and in Opera 12.
>
> HTH,
> Silvia.
>