Re: using Kate for WebVTT encapsulation

Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:15:00 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.theora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:10 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would be good to understand the differences that WebVTT styling and
>> Kate styling offer. Maybe there is a clean mapping? Also, Kate styling
>> could overrule WebVTT styling?
>
> I doubt there is a clean mapping. Even if there were, you wouldn't really want
> a WebVTT decoder to actually decode Kate styling/etc, convert to WebVTT, then
> parse WebVTT from this. A lot better to embed all, or most, of it as is and let
> the WebVTT decoder do the WebVTT decoding.

It was more academic curiosity rather than an actual proposal to do it
in that way.

I agree it should probably be embedded as is.

Cheers,
Silvia.