[whatwg] SRT research: timestamps

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:46:15 +0200, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Ralph Giles <giles at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> A point Philip Jägenstedt has made is that it's sufficiently tedious to
>> verify correct subtitle playback that authors are unlikely to do so with
>> any vigilance. Therefore the better trade-off is to make the parser
>> forgiving, rather than inflict the occasional missing cue on viewers.
>>
>
> How can you even time subtitles without ever looking at them?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13943#c15

I just picked a start time by watching the video and made it 2 seconds  
long. If our data is correct, this particular error only happens in  
0.00035% of cues, which suggests that I am an exceptionally untalented  
author of SRT-like cues.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software