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Re: Film (movie) captions

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From: _mallory
Date: Nov 4, 2015 2:21AM

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 07:58:16PM +0000, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> > Another question with regards to film is the use of closed captioning and subtitles, can these coexist in the caption file?
>
> My understanding is that you would have separate tracks/WebVTT files, one or more for captions in different languages, and others for subtitles.
>

It would seem to make sense that captions become one of the options
among the subtitles, as that's what we see with films today. That
is, the options are all together (I notice in films presented via
Netflix here in the Netherlands, you go to subtitles to find
"English for the hearing impaired" which are the captions).


_mallory