[foms] Just Arrived

[Steve Lhomme]

By the way, were there considerations on patents on this ? For
example, did Apple patent any of their technique of cutting chunks or
maybe on the encoder side.

Also is javascript a requirement for this ? Or just pointing to a
proper URL would be enough for the browser to know it's adaptative and
handle it silently ?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Welcome! It's great to have you here.
>
> There have indeed be some discussions around WebM/Matroska for HTTP
> adaptive streaming, but we're more broadly discussing a solution that
> would work for any video encapsulation format - though with a focus on
> the ones supported in typical HTML5 browsers.
>
> For reading the archives, I'd suggest starting at
> http://lists.annodex.net/cgi-bin/mailman/private/foms/2010-October/000778.html
> and just clicking "next message". Just about everything that has been
> sent since then was related to HTTP adaptive streaming.
>
> Jeroen is mostly pulling everything together, which is awesome. He is
> right now preparing a proposal that can be discussed at the WHATWG and
> eventually go into HTML5, which is why the wiki page that Jeroen cited
> is at whatwg.org. While we want to eventually get to a full proposal
> which includes a manifest file format and full implementation in the
> browser, right now it seems the first step will be to create an API to
> expose the QoS of the video delivery to JavaScript. That together with
> a means of telling the browser to play "chunks", where the definition
> of "chunks" may be a URL to a media resource and a start/end time
> therein, will implementation of adaptive HTTP streaming solutions in
> JavaScript. Then in a next step we can learn from that experience and
> create the remainder of the solution.
>
> Just thought I should expand a little on what Jeroen already wrote. :-)
>
> Looking forward to hearing your opinions!
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Steve Lhomme <slhomme at matroska.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I just subscribed to this list in hope I can help with all the
>> adaptative streaming in HTML5 videos (and audio as well). I am the
>> (main) creator of Matroska, one of the basis of WebM. And from day one
>> my main concern for WebM's success has been that it misses that
>> adaptative streaming part, which is key to a good video experience in
>> a browser.
>>
>> I used to work for CoreCodec and have done a good amount of my work
>> there was handling video streams over HTTP, including YouTube ones,
>> for CorePlayer, a very efficient mobile video player. And IMO video in
>> mobile web browsers is important for the future. And it can only work
>> well by taking in account the highly varying nature of bandwidth.
>>
>> The archives are a little tricky to navigate (efficiently), so I'll
>> jump on conversations when I see fit. Pardon me in advance if I
>> propose things that have already been discussed... Is there any online
>> resource that describes the progress of some kind of specs that would
>> have arised from the discussions here ?
>>
>> Steve
>> _______________________________________________
>> foms mailing list
>> foms at lists.annodex.net
>> http://lists.annodex.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foms
>>
> _______________________________________________
> foms mailing list
> foms at lists.annodex.net
> http://lists.annodex.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foms
>