Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-07-04 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 6/6/2012 1:32 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I believe right now there are two proposals under discussion that are trying to address the adaptive streaming issues: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/streams/StreamProcessing.html and

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-06-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
I believe right now there are two proposals under discussion that are trying to address the adaptive streaming issues: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/streams/StreamProcessing.html and http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/media-source.html I believe both are still

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-06-06 Thread Charles Pritchard
On Jun 5, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Rodger Combs wrote: I propose that source add a quality, bitrate, or filesize attribute to allow the UA to decide between multiple streams by choosing the maximum quality file that it can download within a

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Rodger Combs wrote: I propose that source add a quality, bitrate, or filesize attribute to allow the UA to decide between multiple streams by choosing the maximum quality file that it can download within a reasonable amount of time (e.g. it will download faster than it

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-02-23 Thread Steven Kollars
Adaptive streaming is definitely something that is already being worked on by various parties. There is already Apple's HLS that can be used on Safari, and then there's the MPEG DASH protocol that is backed by Microsoft and other parties. It'll be a while before browser makers implement and

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-02-23 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
I'd be curious what you think about the proposal at http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Video_Metrics which is being addressed through bugs https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14970 and https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12399 . Regards, Silvia. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM,

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-02-23 Thread Rodger Combs
While they're useful, I don't see how those bugs add the functions I proposed. Am I missing something, or are you just asking for input on a related topic? If so, I think those seem pretty nice. On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I'd be curious what you think about the

Re: [whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-02-23 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
quality, bitrate and filesize can all be calculated from those metrics and it can all be done automatically. So, if you give a list of source elements and those metrics are provided by the browser through the IDL, the switching that you're asking for will be made possible. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at

[whatwg] sources in video by quality as well as codec

2012-02-21 Thread Rodger Combs
I propose that source add a quality, bitrate, or filesize attribute to allow the UA to decide between multiple streams by choosing the maximum quality file that it can download within a reasonable amount of time (e.g. it will download faster than it will play) or based on a user preference