On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Ralph Giles <[email protected]> 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? Simon: Another useful statistic would be the number of files which 1: *always* use periods in SRT timestamps (consistently wrong) compared to 2: the number of files which mix periods and commas in timestamps (occasionally wrong). I'm guessing #1 is much more common. -- Glenn Maynard
