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Bug 9777 - "the cues are being displayed over the video as appropriate" - this says "cues", so multiple cues are supported at once. But many SRT players don't actually support more than one SRT subtitle at once - they either play the first one in the file or draw th
Summary: "the cues are being displayed over the video as appropriate" - this says "cue...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-05-20 09:27 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-05-20 09:27:30 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#timed-track-model

Comment:
"the cues are being displayed over the video as appropriate" - this says
"cues", so multiple cues are supported at once. But many SRT players don't
actually support more than one SRT subtitle at once - they either play the
first one in the file or draw them over each other. SSA/AS6 is the only format
that cares about multiple lines ("collision handling"). Needs a testcase at
least.

Posted from: 184.36.82.183
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-25 15:49:01 UTC 
Not clear what is being requested here. Clearly we need to support overlapping cues, the research found several examples of this that I wouldn't say were particularly exotic. We will definitely need test cases for all of this, but that's a separate issue than the spec.