[Ogg a11y] ogg double seek algorithm (Re: a generic mapping of text codecs into Ogg)

[Ralph Giles]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:49 AM, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
<ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I've just implemented repeats in my code (should've done it long ago)
> and they work fine. Actually, cranking repeat rate to half a second on
> a simple text stream means you don't have to do any seek at all to get
> almost instant sync, and the extra bandwidth is negligible. I expected
> that to be much worse; I reckon a lot of players will settle for not doing
> the double seek, as a lot do not do the double seek for Theora either
> (well, VLC does not), so who cares about text :).

Kate allows multiple languages in the same packet, correct?

This is in fact great, but for a single-language caption format like
srt, the framing overhead of 30 languages twice a second isn't
negligible at web bitrates.

 -r