Media Types in 3GPP Timed text draft (was: RE: [AVT] RTP andMediaTypes)

[Dave Singer]

At 3:46 PM +0200 9/7/04, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
>Dave Singer wrote:
>
>>But text/html is not only rendering text, it is expressed in text. 
>>3GPP renders text, but it is expressed in binary.
>>
>
>Not really. In my view timed text is expressed in binary framing and 
>UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoded text (which might be argued is binary). But 
>the framing issues, are true for basically all RTP payload formats. 
>You need to understand the RTP payload format to do anything.

agreed.  if you don't understand the payload-specific headers, it is 
no help to know that some of what you are looking at is expressed in 
textual format.

>
>Cheers
>
>Magnus Westerlund
>
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David Singer
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