[foms] Proposal: adaptive streaming using open codecs

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Jeroen Wijering
<jeroen at longtailvideo.com> wrote:
>
> User-agents
> ===========
>
> The root manifest serves as the single, unique reference point for a adaptive stream. Therefore, user agents need solely its URL to playback the stream.
>
> Here's an example for loading a root manifest: through the *src* attribute of the <video> tag in an HTML page:
>
>    <video width="480" height="270" src="http://example.com/video.m3u8">
>      <a href="http://example.com/video_low.webm">Download the video</a>
>    </video>
>
> In this variation, the manifest is loaded through the <source> tag, to provide fallback logic:
>
>    <video width="480" height="270" >
>      <source src="http://example.com/video.m3u8" type="video/m3u8">
>      <source src="http://example.com/video_low.webm" type="video/webm">
>      <a href="http://example.com/video_low.webm">Download the video</a>
>    </video>

Shouldn't the m3u8 file have the mime type of the video data being
inside it? i.e. it should be type="video/webm" rather than
"video/m3u8"? How would the browser otherwise know which m3u8 file to
use for mp4, ogg or webm?


Cheers,
Silvia.