Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-03 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:07:50 +0200, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all due respect: the mission of the WWW Corporation is to create standards, not to create situations. Not to speak for Robert, but I'm guessing that his point is that the W3C isn't creating a standard here. Note that

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 2 Apr 2008, at 4:53 pm, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: Dnia 01-04-2008, Wt o godzinie 23:38 +0100, David Gerard pisze: The actual solution is a large amount of compelling content in Theora or similar. Wikimedia is working on this, though we're presently hampered by a severe lack of money

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 2 Apr 2008, at 16:55, Robert J Crisler wrote: It will be very, very difficult to develop critical mass for content encoded in Theora (or Dirac), much less ubiquity. I'm not saying there's no point in trying. I applaud the effort, though I have misgivings about the W3C setting itself up

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-02 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 02-04-2008, Śr o godzinie 10:55 -0500, Robert J Crisler pisze: Why should the W3C choose not create a better situation than the current one (which is a mess for developers and a mess for users), while continuing to work on the ideal? With all due respect: the mission of the WWW

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-01 Thread Elliotte Harold
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: The current standard for publishing media on the Web, in particular consumer media, is Adobe Flash. This is the case not because of the codecs inside Adobe Flash but because sites such as YouTube enable consumers to publish media without having to worry about license fees

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-01 Thread Gervase Markham
Robert J Crisler wrote: From my perspective, and for what it's worth, I doubt that the ideals of the W3C as expressed in 3.12.7.1 http://3.12.7.1 would result in a situation that would be superior to simply letting the international standards body for audio and video codecs deal with these

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-01 Thread David Gerard
On 01/04/2008, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert J Crisler wrote: From my perspective, and for what it's worth, I doubt that the ideals of the W3C as expressed in 3.12.7.1 http://3.12.7.1 would result in a situation that would be superior to simply letting the

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-03-31 Thread Gervase Markham
Robert J Crisler wrote: The text under 3.12.7.1 could have been written ten years ago: It would be helpful for interoperability if all browsers could support the same codecs. However, there are no known codecs that satisfy all the current players: we need a codec that is known to not require

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-03-31 Thread Robert J Crisler
I'm not saying that the MPEG codecs meet the 3.12.7.1 requirements. I'm saying that ISO/IEC MPEG standards are vastly preferable to the nonstandard, single-company junk that web developers are saddled with now. The W3C need not abandon its ideals to declare that MPEG standards are better than the

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-03-31 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Robert J Crisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue of a small licensing fee didn't stop MPEG 1 Part 3 from becoming the ubiquitous world standard for audio. MP3 because an ISO/IEC standard in 1991, but patent enforcement did not happen until 1998, until which

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Federico Bianco Prevot
Has anyone considered Bink video as a viable option? http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm Bink is a better-than-DVD class codec - it compresses at higher quality than DVD at up to three times the playback speed! Bink uses up to 16 MB less memory at runtime than other codecs. It has been

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Out of the question, it must be royalty-free. That's one of the requirements, so unless you can convince the holder to go RF, no chance. El Lunes 07 Ene 2008, Federico Bianco Prevot escribió: Has anyone considered Bink video as a viable option? http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm Bink

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
If you need to pay ¢1 for copies distributed, then it isn't royalty free and it can't be on the standard as a requirement. Flat fee is not royalty free. YES, I MEANT BEING ABLE TO USE IT WITHOUT PAYING ANY KIND OF FEE. Am I too daft for my words to be understood? El Lunes 07 Ene 2008,

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Singer
At 19:29 +0100 7/01/08, Federico Bianco Prevot wrote: Has anyone considered Bink video as a viable option? http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm I get the impression that this is not an openly-specified codec, which I rather think is a problem. That is, there is neither a publicly

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:50:09PM -0800, Dave Singer wrote: I get the impression that this is not an openly-specified codec, which I rather think is a problem. That is, there is neither a publicly available spec. nor publicly-available source, which means that it is controlled by one

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread David Gerard
On 07/01/2008, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:29 +0100 7/01/08, Federico Bianco Prevot wrote: Has anyone considered Bink video as a viable option? http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm I get the impression that this is not an openly-specified codec, which I rather think is a

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
I don't find anything objectionable with that suggestion. It gives us the best of two worlds. Of course, should x264 be freed, there would be no longer any reason not to put Ogg alongside x264 in the spec as MUST. I have a suggestion: Nokia, Apple: you want H.264, you free H.264. Make it

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Singer
At 21:59 + 7/01/08, David Gerard wrote: On 07/01/2008, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:29 +0100 7/01/08, Federico Bianco Prevot wrote: Has anyone considered Bink video as a viable option? http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm I get the impression that this is not an

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2008-01-07 Thread Dan Brickley
[snip] How about this permathread gets a @whatwg.org mailing list all of its own? Just a suggestion... dan

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 12 Dec 2007, at 01:41, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: 1) maybe (I've heard game vendors cited, not sure which ones) I know someone already posted a list, but it is used within all Unreal Engine 2.5 (i.e., UT 2004) and Unreal Engine 3 (i.e., UT 3) games (which I'm sure you can find a long

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed [ISSUE-7 video-codecs]

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Connolly
Ian Hickson wrote: I've temporarily removed the requirements on video codecs from the HTML5 spec, since the current text isn't helping us come to a useful interoperable conclusion. When a codec is found that is mutually acceptable to all major parties I will update the spec to require that

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 12-12-2007, Śr o godzinie 00:11 -0500, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) pisze: I'd rephrase it as # Has had traction, time and exposure in the market, enough so patent threats should have arisen already. That is, as a study of a troll's lifestyle shows, indefinite.

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 11-12-2007, Wt o godzinie 18:53 -0500, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) pisze: Wanna know what happened to the last troll that attacked free software? Ask Darl McBride. Everyone is under the possibility of constant attack from trolls. He was not a patent troll, he was acting for Microsoft and

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Ian Hickson wrote: I've temporarily removed the requirements on video codecs from the HTML5 spec, since the current text isn't helping us come to a useful interoperable conclusion. I don't think this solves any problem, neither in the short term or the long term. I suggest that the should

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2007-12-11 02:39 +, Ian Hickson wrote: I've temporarily removed the requirements on video codecs from the HTML5 spec, since the current text isn't helping us come to a useful interoperable conclusion. When a codec is found that is mutually acceptable to all major parties I

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
The text you replaced the requirements with [1] includes the requirement that the codec: # is not an additional submarine patent risk for large companies Is this something that can be measured objectively, or is it a loophole that allows any sufficiently large company to veto the choice of

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:27 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 2007-12-11 02:39 +, Ian Hickson wrote: I've temporarily removed the requirements on video codecs from the HTML5 spec, since the current text isn't helping us come to a useful interoperable conclusion. When a codec is found

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Conrad Parker
On 12/12/2007, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there are some objective criteria that can help determine the scope of risk: 1) Is the codec already in use by deep-pockets vendors? ... Vorbis: 1) maybe (I've heard game vendors cited, not sure which ones) Microsoft

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 12/11/07, L. David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # is not an additional submarine patent risk for large companies Is this something that can be measured objectively, or is it a loophole that allows any sufficiently large company to veto the choice of codec for any reason it chooses,

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
I'd rephrase it as # Has had traction, time and exposure in the market, enough so patent threats should have arisen already. Which is basically the same meaning, and includes Ogg Vorbis technology. Because if America Online (Winamp) is not a big company, then I don't know the meaning of the

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-11-14 Thread John Foliot
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Sorry to be getting back to this thread this late, but I am trying to catch up on email. I'd like to contribute some thoughts on Ogg, CMML and Captions and will cite selectively from emails in this thread. snip This would be problematic when downloading the

Re: [whatwg] video title or alt attribute

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Currently alternative content for audio and video isn't dealt with very well, I think. It does address fallback content for older user agents but it does not address disabling support for video and not being able to support video (Lynx) at

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements

2007-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, ddailey wrote: As a newcomer to this group, please forgive my ignorance of discussions that, undoubtedly, have already taken place, but as I have been reading these threads on video and timed media and object, a couple of questions have come to mind: 1. why not just

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements

2007-10-12 Thread Dave Singer
At 0:34 + 13/10/07, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, ddailey wrote: As a newcomer to this group, please forgive my ignorance of discussions that, undoubtedly, have already taken place, but as I have been reading these threads on video and timed media and object, a couple of

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements -- Part I SMIL

2007-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Dan Brickley wrote: I've not followed it, ... but there's a SMIL subset integrated with XHTML at http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusSMIL/ ... if you find SMIL too large, perhaps this or another profile is less intimidating? This profile doesn't seem to define error handling,

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback - integration, fragments, and queries

2007-10-11 Thread Dave Singer
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Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-10-10 Thread Dave Singer
At 11:37 +0200 29/03/07, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:04:33 +0200, Boris Zbarsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laurens Holst wrote: So, what do you think would be needed to fix this situation. In my dream world, IE would support dispatch by MIME type and authors who

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 8, 2007, at 22:12, Dave Singer wrote: At 12:22 +0300 8/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Could someone who knows more about the production of audio descriptions, please, comment if audio description can in practice be implemented as a supplementary sound track that plays concurrently

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 8, 2007, at 22:52, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: I'm a bit confused about why W3C's Timed Text Candidate Recommendation hasn't been mentioned in this thread, especially given that Flash objects are the VIDEO element's biggest competitor and Flash CS3's closed captioning component

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Henri Sivonen wrote: In that case, an entire alternative soundtrack encoded using a general-purpose codec would be called for. Is it reasonable to expect content providers to take the bandwidth hit? Or should we expect content providers to provide an entire alternative video file? Just for

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 8, 2007, at 22:05, Dave Singer wrote: We suggested two ways to achieve captioning (a) by selection of element, at the HTML level ('if you need captions, use this resource') Makes sense to me in case of open captions burned onto the video track. and (b) styling of elements at the HTML

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Maik Merten
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis schrieb: I'm a bit confused about why W3C's Timed Text Candidate Recommendation hasn't been mentioned in this thread, especially given that Flash objects are the VIDEO element's biggest competitor and Flash CS3's closed captioning component supports Timed Text. I haven't

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Dave Singer
At 10:03 +0300 9/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 22:52, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: I'm a bit confused about why W3C's Timed Text Candidate Recommendation hasn't been mentioned in this thread, especially given that Flash objects are the VIDEO element's biggest competitor and

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:03:41 +0200, Maik Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20061116/ Actually I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have an attribute for media elements specifying a URI for a file containing Timed Text. These externally stored (not

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 9, 2007, at 19:24, Dave Singer wrote: At 10:03 +0300 9/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: My understanding is that the purpose of this thread isn't to find a captioning spec for HTML 5 but to find the right way to do closed captions in Ogg. Oh. I was under the impression that this thread

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Dave Singer
At 9:22 +0300 9/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 22:12, Dave Singer wrote: At 12:22 +0300 8/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Could someone who knows more about the production of audio descriptions, please, comment if audio description can in practice be implemented as a

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 10/9/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the delivery is streaming, or in some other way where the selection of tracks can be done prior to transport, then there isn't a bandwidth hit at all, of course. Then the ask this resource to present itself in the captioned fashion is a

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-09 Thread Dave Singer
At 0:25 +0100 10/10/07, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: On 10/9/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the delivery is streaming, or in some other way where the selection of tracks can be done prior to transport, then there isn't a bandwidth hit at all, of course. Then the ask this

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:14:05 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, this is a very good discussion to have and I would be curious about the opinions of people. An alternative is to use SVG as a container format. You can include captions in various forms, provide

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
(Heavy quote snipping. Picking on particular points.) On Oct 8, 2007, at 03:14, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: This is both, more generic than captions, and less generic in that captions have formatting and are displayed in a particular way. I think we should avoid overdoing captioning or

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Dave Singer
At 9:45 +1200 8/10/07, Chris Double wrote: The video element description states that Theora, Voribis and Ogg container should be supported. How should closed captions and audio description tracks for accessibility be supported using video and these formats? I was pointed to a page outlining

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Dave Singer
At 8:58 +0200 8/10/07, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:14:05 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, this is a very good discussion to have and I would be curious about the opinions of people. An alternative is to use SVG as a container format. You

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Dave Singer
At 12:22 +0300 8/10/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Is 3GPP Timed Text aka. MPEG-4 part 17 unencumbered? (IANAL, this isn't an endorsement of the format--just a question.) I am not authoritative, but I have not seen any disclosures myself. an alternate audio track (e.g. speex as suggested by you

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Dave Singer wrote: an alternate audio track (e.g. speex as suggested by you for accessibility to blind people), My understanding is that at least conceptually an audio description track is *supplementary* to the normal sound track. Could someone who knows more about the production of audio

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-10-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Martin Atkins wrote: I must disagree with the focus on the comparatively complicated case (video as part of a web application) vs. the more obvious case of I just want to embed a video in my web page. The spec has since been updated to include the ability for

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-10-08 Thread Ian Hickson
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Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-07 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Chris, this is a very good discussion to have and I would be curious about the opinions of people. CMML has been developed with an aim to provide html-type timed text annotations for audio/video - in particular hyperlinks and annotations to temporal sections of videos. This is both, more

Re: [whatwg] Video

2007-08-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: I guess I wasn't paying attention when the Audio interface was being discussed, because I totally missed it. Looking at it now, I'd make some alterations to it. For example, there's a difference between pausing and stopping. (With

Re: [whatwg] video title or alt attribute

2007-04-26 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Actually the proposed model allows for the use of real content, not just an attribute. This is generally regarded as a better approach for accessibility since it provides much more flexibility (and as it happens provides for better backwards compatibility as well. So instead of video src=foo

Re: [whatwg] video title or alt attribute

2007-04-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:57:16 +0200, Stuart Langridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the intention that fallback content inside the video element is displayed for all of 1. the source URL throws an error 2. the user agent has video switched off somehow 3. the user agent doesn't support video ?

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-04-16 Thread Matthew Raymond
Laurens Holst wrote: Matthew Raymond schreef: Sure, native video playback, yay. But what has that got to do with creating a video element instead of using object. Objects can play Theora, too, you know. Natively. Just like browsers can render SVG in object tags, natively. It's

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-04-01 Thread Shadow2531
On 3/29/07, Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The URL parameter (as also seen in e.g. Quicktime and Flash) is imho a dirty hack to work around implementations not providing plugins with a streaming file reader object. At least, that is the only explanation I can come up with. There is a

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-29 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Henri Sivonen wrote: I've asked about this before but I still don't understand it: Why doesn't Gecko completely ignore the classid? Apart from the fact that this would technically be a spec violation, it actually breaks some pages (because the ActiveX and NPAPI versions of some plug-ins

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-28 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Laurens Holst wrote: As said, I tried a few things with embedding an image, video and SVG with the object tag: ... First of all, one annoying thing is that you have to provide sizes, otherwise the object will not be visible. At least in Mozilla, this is false for images. It should become

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-28 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Laurens Holst wrote: One of the main reasons that object is still broken on the web and why embed needs to be used is Mozilla; their plugin finder doesn’t work with object. I'm sorry, but that's false. See my other post (under Re: video element feedback) and

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-27 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:59:14 +0200, Benoit Piette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the same train of thought, a document tag might be useful. I always found anoying that for many embeded documents (word or pdf) you would have a second user interface that have similar functionnality to the web

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-26 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 22:17 + UTC, on 2007-03-25, Kornel Lesinski wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:28:38 -, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]allowing authors the ability to override the browsers controls [...] Seems to me the user shoudl be in control here [...] [...] Authors use

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-25 Thread James Justin Harrell
From HTML 4.01: type = content-type [CI] This attribute specifies the content type for the data specified by data. This attribute is optional but recommended when data is specified since it allows the user agent to avoid loading information for unsupported content types. If the value of

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-25 Thread Elliotte Harold
Chris Adams wrote: Actually that sounds like a splendid idea to me. although I am not sure about using the form tag. what about something like? video src='some_file.ogg' button type='rewind' / button type='playpause' / button type='stop' / button type='fastforward' / /video Why

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Adams
The browser could control this, yes; however I believe that the browser should really be as transparent as possible as to not be a limiting factor in development. there can always be browser defaults that take over, but by allowing authors the ability to override the browsers controls will allow

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-25 Thread Elliotte Harold
Chris Adams wrote: there can always be browser defaults that take over, but by allowing authors the ability to override the browsers controls will allow for the flexibility of a) allowing for disabled controls (perhaps disabling fast-forward for training videos) Seems to me the user shoudl

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-25 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:28:38 -, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there can always be browser defaults that take over, but by allowing authors the ability to override the browsers controls will allow for the flexibility of a) allowing for disabled controls (perhaps disabling

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Matthew Ratzloff wrote: Slightly more complex use case: object classid=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B codebase=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab; width=200 height=16 param name=src value=my-audio.mp3 / param

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-24 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:33:39PM -0700, Eric Carlson wrote: Yes, the UA needs the offset/chunking table in order to calculate a file offset for a time, but this is efficient in the case of container formats in which the table is stored together with other information that's needed

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-24 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 01:57:45AM -0700, Kevin Marks wrote: How does one seek a Vorbis file with video in and recover framing? It looks like you skip to an arbitrary point and scan for 'OggS' then do a 64kB CRC to make sure this isn't a fluke. Then you have some packets that correspond to

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-24 Thread Maik Merten
Geoffrey Sneddon schrieb: That sort of info is held within the container, so everything within Ogg (so both Theora and Dirac) will suffer from it. H.264 being part of the MPEG-4 standard follows what Kevin Marks said: On 24 Mar 2007, at 08:57, Kevin Marks wrote: 2. define a chunk/offset

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Gareth Hay
In this case, there is a big difference between streamed data, which can be played from various positions, and non-streamed data which requires a complete download, or at least the start of the file. Perhaps there should be some reflection of this in the tag? On 23 Mar 2007, at 03:15,

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On 3/23/07, Sander Tekelenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of a video container format that allows named anchors to be specified, though. QuickTime let's authors define points in a .mov container as chapters, which, in the cotext of the Web, could function as named anchors I'd

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-23 Thread Maik Merten
Håkon Wium Lie schrieb: Does Dirac aim at becoming a member in the Ogg family, or are you primarily working towards a standalone format? Dirac is container neutral to my knowledge. The implementation targeted at end-users is embedding it in Ogg, though, so it can e.g. use the free Ogg audio

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:24:30 -, Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say there's http://example.com/example.html page which contains embedded video: ...video src=video.ogg... I'd like to be able to construct URL like: http://example.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:35 that would cause UA

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
The difference between streaming and non-streaming is artificial and not technically necessary - except for life content, where you cannot jump into the future. Silvia. On 3/23/07, Gareth Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, there is a big difference between streamed data, which can be

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
How about the following idea: Example.html contains: video id=myvideo_1 src=video.ogg to provide the full video video id=myvideo_2 src=video.ogg?t=0:12:35 to provide the video from offset 12:35 video id=myvideo_3 src=video.ogg?t=0:12:35/0:20:40 to provide the video segment between offset

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Carlson
On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: On 3/23/07, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't we have all of: 1) A way for authors to match up timecodes with fragment identifiers in the fallback content 2) A way for UAs to skip to that time code if a fragment identifier is

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:57:24 -, Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: video id=myvideo_3 src=video.ogg?t=0:12:35/0:20:40 to provide the video segment between offset 12:35 and 20:40 video id=myvideo_4 src=video.ogg?id=section4 to provide the video from named offset section4 These

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Carlson
On Mar 23, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Eric, On 3/24/07, Eric Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even without a server component, #2 and #3 do not require the UA to download the full file if it can use byte range requests for random access and the file format has time to

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements

2007-03-22 Thread ddailey
As a newcomer to this group, please forgive my ignorance of discussions that, undoubtedly, have already taken place, but as I have been reading these threads on video and timed media and object, a couple of questions have come to mind: 1. why not just include SMIL as a part of HTML, much in

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas Davies
Hi Having been pointed at this discussion by Christian, I thought I'd let you know a bit more about where Dirac is as a royalty-free open source codec. We're certainly very keen for Dirac to be considered as one of the supported video formats. Dirac has been in development for 4 years. In

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-22 Thread Gareth Hay
This is maybe off-topic to some degree. What are the DRM constraints of this format? I only ask as your organisation is embarking on an MS-DRM fueled online media project, and I am curious as to the position of this codec. thanks On 22 Mar 2007, at 12:28, Thomas Davies wrote: Hi Having

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas Davies
: [whatwg] video element proposal This is maybe off-topic to some degree. What are the DRM constraints of this format? I only ask as your organisation is embarking on an MS-DRM fueled online media project, and I am curious as to the position of this codec

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements -- Part I SMIL

2007-03-22 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:57:08 +0100, ddailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. why not just include SMIL as a part of HTML, much in the same way that it is integrated with SVG? It is an existing W3C reco. Reasons for not using t:video were that it was 1) complicated and 2) not used. Thanks

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements -- Part I SMIL

2007-03-22 Thread Martin Atkins
ddailey wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:03:24, Anne van Kesteren wrote 1. why not just include SMIL as a part of HTML, much in the same way that it is integrated with SVG? It is an existing W3C reco. Reasons for not using t:video were that it was 1) complicated and 2) not used. Thanks

Re: [whatwg] video, object, Timed Media Elements -- Part I SMIL

2007-03-22 Thread Dan Brickley
Martin Atkins wrote: ddailey wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:03:24, Anne van Kesteren wrote 1. why not just include SMIL as a part of HTML, much in the same way that it is integrated with SVG? It is an existing W3C reco. Reasons for not using t:video were that it was 1) complicated and 2)

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Sorry to jump into this conversation at such a late point, but I only just joined the mailing list. About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI standardisation team at W3C it turned out that

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 22 Mar 2007, at 20:53, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Sorry to jump into this conversation at such a late point, but I only just joined the mailing list. About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:53:48 -, Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI standardisation team at W3C it turned out that fragment offsets are only

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Christoph Päper
Kornel Lesinski: http://example.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:35 that would cause UA to start playing the embedded video.ogg from 12:35. That would limit documents to one |video| (or |audio|) element.

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
[My apologies for initially responding off-list. That was unintentional. I'm posting an updated version.] At 20:04 + UTC, on 2007-03-21, Martin Atkins wrote: Sander Tekelenburg wrote: [...] URL:http://domain.example/movie.ogg#21:08, to mean fetch the movie and start playing it at 21

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 19:46 + UTC, on 2007-03-22, Nicholas Shanks wrote: On 22 Mar 2007, at 19:23, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: [...] We're not talking about IDs, just fragment identifiers. My point was that with video, you could use fragment identifiers *without* the need for the author to provide IDs. I

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 01:30, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: (Note that a mechanism to allow authors to define anchors in videos is not a solution, because it's then still the author who is in control. What I'm suggesting is about giving the user control.) Can't we have all of: 1) A way for

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 07:53 +1100 UTC, on 2007-03-23, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: [...] About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI standardisation team at W3C it turned out that fragment offsets are only being seen

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