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Bug 12560 - Not sure if this is the right place for such a comment, but although support for an external text file for subtitles or captions is a great addition to the standard I would also recommend that display of embedded track data already injected into the media
Summary: Not sure if this is the right place for such a comment, but although support ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-04-26 19:50 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:01 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-04-26 19:50:44 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-track-kind-keyword-subtitles

Comment:
Not sure if this is the right place for such a comment, but although support
for an external text file for subtitles or captions is a great addition to the
standard I would also recommend that display of embedded track data already
injected into the media file could also be supported. The reason being that
one of the most frustrating aspects of subtitles and media is that they are
often split apart making it difficult for users to know how to bring them
together. Users being media owners or simply viewers. DVD is one of very few
formats that includes subtitles as a stream and this is excellent. the moov
tracks in a quicktime media file also support text tracks and can be used in
mp4 files as I already do. This means the file can be anywhere and the
subtitles are available with the audio and video, why split them up when they
can stay together ?

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Comment 1 Tim Hull 2011-04-26 19:59:54 UTC 
Just wanted to associate the post with this user account so that I may receive any feedback.
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2011-04-26 23:12:45 UTC 
This is already covered. This whole section talks about in-band subtitle tracks http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#sourcing-in-band-text-tracks and how they get added to the IDL for a video.
Comment 3 Aryeh Gregor 2011-06-24 19:08:48 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please
reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I haven't studied this section of the spec closely, but Silvia's link does look like it covers what you asked for, and I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about.  :)  Please reopen if you feel that the current text there doesn't satisfy your request, and explain what changes it could use.
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:01:05 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1