- From: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:35:26 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Hi Philip, Le 9/27/2012 10:30 AM, Philip Jägenstedt a écrit : > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:41:34 +0200, Cyril Concolato > <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Has it been considered adding another method to add cues to a track? >> Something like addCues(DOMString text) where the text is not only one >> cue (like in the TextTrackCue ctor) but where the text would be >> multiple cues as written in a WebVTT file? My use case is that I'm >> getting WebVTT content from a server using XHR and I'd like to add >> that easily to the track, without having to parse them myself. >> Ideally, I would like to push the WebVTT content to the track a bit >> like the Media Source Extension API. Another option (less ideal) >> would be to have a WebVTTParser object with a parseFromString method >> returning a TextTrackList (a bit like the DOMParser object). Each cue >> could be added one by one. >> >> Comments? >> >> Cyril > > You can parse WebVTT using a dummy video+track element and then move > the cues to the actual track, why is this less than ideal? I did not think about that option. It could do the trick. Thank you. By less than ideal, I meant that if I can push content to a buffer and let the browser parse the text and add the cues to the track, it seems easier/more elegant than having either to parse in JS or to create dummy elements and move cues around. Cyril -- Cyril Concolato Maître de Conférences/Associate Professor Groupe Multimedia/Multimedia Group Telecom ParisTech 46 rue Barrault 75 013 Paris, France http://concolato.wp.mines-telecom.fr/
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