Re: Why use time as a unit of measurement? (was: Proposal 0.0)

I haven't had much time to read/contribute to this ML yet, but I just
thought it would be important to point out that using a time standard
(such as English time) would be a mistake since there are more than one
time standard (I myself have been recently switching over to use the
hexadecimal time standard). Yet using frame numbers would also be a
problem as the TT script might be used with different video
files/streams which have different framerates. I'm not sure what
alternative is left over, but those are two important things to consider...

lists@wiltgen.net wrote:

>Johnb@screen.subtitling.com wrote...
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>>FileX is indexed against the timecode that is stored as VBI data on TapeX.
>>So unlike SMIL - the media are separate - subtitles in one - video and
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>You can forget about SMIL, although I think that understanding what it is
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>Unless I'm missing something, Proposal 0.0 works just the way you would like
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>>In practice, the broadcaster will want to show adverts. These can occur
>>at **any time** during the broadcast, and may differ from showing to
>>showing...
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>In my previous post I described how this would work.  (Please let me know
>if the explanation didn't make seise.)
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>>Subtitles are frame accurate for lip synching.
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>I've explained a few times why time (rather than frame-based timecode)
>must be used.  As two examples, the TT should still work when taking a
>24fps film source to NTSC, or to the web via a QuickTime movie with a
>default timebase of 600 units/second whose video content is encoded at
>12fps.
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>>I can conceive of other situations where the assumption of 1 sec per sec
>>is invalid.
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>I know you're not serious, but I don't get the joke.
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>>...timebases can always be converted into a single format.
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>Exactly, and that single format is time.
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>-- Charles Wiltgen
>   <http://playbacktime.com/>
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