Re: Right usage of TTML for video

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Eunice Yu <yonhee.yu@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I found another links below not sure if it's obsolete now.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2008/12/dfxp-testsuite/web-framework/START.html
> it is also using a client side script as well and I could see comment
> metioning TTML usage in "HTML5_player.js"
>
>  usage:
>
>  <video src="example.movie" id="video" controls>
>  <text lang='en' type="application/ttaf+xml"
> src="testsuite/Content/Br001.xml"></text>
>  </video>
>
> As a browser vendor, it is a different story if TTML is expect to be bound
> to any other elements except for track.  Can I say <track > is the only
> element that TTML can be work with? I mean without client side script, and
> if browser vendor is trying to support it natively.
>

At this point in time, yes, per HTML specification, the only replaced
element that would take TTML and render it would be <track @kind=captions>
or <track @kind=subtitles> inside <video>.

HTH,
Silvia.