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{{quotation|The WebVTT format (Web Video Text Tracks) is a format intended for marking up external text track resources.
{{quotation|The WebVTT format (Web Video Text Tracks) is a format intended for marking up external text track resources.
The main use for WebVTT files is captioning video content.}} ([http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/ WebVTT], retr. April 23 2012).
The main use for WebVTT files is captioning video content.}} ([http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/ WebVTT], retr. April 23 2012).
WebVTT can be used in the '''track''' element of [[HTML5 audio and video|HTML5 video]]. As of April 2012, browsers may not implement this, but probably some JavaScript-based HTML5 players do.
See also:
* [[timed text]]
* [[HTML5 audio and video]]


=== The format ===
=== The format ===

Revision as of 17:19, 23 April 2012

Draft

Introduction

“The WebVTT format (Web Video Text Tracks) is a format intended for marking up external text track resources. The main use for WebVTT files is captioning video content.” (WebVTT, retr. April 23 2012).

WebVTT can be used in the track element of HTML5 video. As of April 2012, browsers may not implement this, but probably some JavaScript-based HTML5 players do.

See also:

The format

The WebVTT format is fairly complex and surprisingly doesn't use XML.

Simple example (taken from the draft specification)

WEBVTT

00:11.000 --> 00:13.000
<v Roger Bingham>We are in New York City

00:13.000 --> 00:16.000
<v Roger Bingham>We're actually at the Lucern Hotel, just down the street

Links

  • WebVTT, Living Standard — Last Updated 19 April 2012, retrieved April 2012.