[whatwg] Subtitles, captions, and other tracks augmenting video or audio

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> I'm also confused about the removal of the chapter tracks. These are
>> also time-aligned text files and again look very similar to SRT. Here
>> is an extract of a QTtext chapter track example:
>>
>> {QTtext} {size:16} {font:Lucida Grande} {width:320} {height:42}
>> {language:0} {textColor:65535,65535,65535} {backColor:0,0,0}
>> {doNotAutoScale:off} {timeScale:100} {timeStamps:absolute}
>> {justify:center}
>> [00:00:09.30]
>> Chocolate Rain
>> [00:00:12.00]
>> Some stay dry and others feel the pain
>> [00:00:16.00]
>> Chocolate Rain
>> [00:00:18.00]
>> A baby born will die before the sin
>
> Indeed, chapter markers are clearly something that fits into the same
> model and should be supported.
>
> (Those are some damn short chapters. Are you sure that's not a lyric
> track?)

That is indeed a lyric track, to the song Chocolate Rain.

~TJ