- From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:29:26 +0200
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Public TTWG List <public-tt@w3.org>
Dave, That is very good news for WebVTT, specially the Do you have a pointer to these implementations ? (WebVTT and Translation ) You say Kaltura is too small to be able to get involved in standards work. Is it a human ressource issue or a financial issue due to the W3C fee ? Thierry On 22/04/2015 00:49, David Singer wrote: > Hi > > the guys at Kaltura said I could forward this. They have implementations > of both TTML (DFXP) and VTT, and interestingly have the translation > working (and open-sourced). This helps us in two ways, I think: evidence > of implementation and use, and source code that does the conversion. > > Alas, they are too small to be able to get involved in standards work, > but I think we can still thank them for this, and supporting captioning > and media accessibility. > > At the moment, they have no particular feedback on the specs, but > obviously they have read and implemented them. > > cheers > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> It’s fairly a thin implementation, but we have created a WebVTT >> on-the-fly generator from SRT/DFXP to provide support for WebVTT to >> our customers. It has been running on Production for a while now. >> You can see the code >> at:https://github.com/kaltura/server/tree/Jupiter-10.10.0/plugins/content/caption/base/lib >> >> WebVTT and HLS Captions Support FAQ: >> http://knowledge.kaltura.com/node/966 >> >> Kaltura handles ingest of WebVTT, SRT, DFXP and Json transcripts – and >> supports the playback of all formats. >> In addition we also support the generation of WebVTT on-the-fly for >> better support of captions in iOS devices, for publishers who didn’t >> ingest WebVTT. > > David Singer > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc. >
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