[foms] WebM Manifest

[Mark Watson]

On Apr 7, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:01:34 +0100, Frank Galligan <fgalligan at google.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> 1. If W3C adopts the DASH as a manifest format would the W3c license
>> be acceptable to you?
> 
> This is no the outcome I am hoping for, but if all other browser vendors  
> think that DASH is brilliant than of course ultimately I have no say in  
> the matter. What I would hope happen is that we have a capable API and a  
> *simple* baseline format to deal with the simple cases. This gives us the  
> best of both worlds and is similar to how <track> + WebVTT for captions  
> works.
> 
>> 2. Technically is the simple VOD profile of Dash too complex?
> 
> I tried searching this list for a reference to it but couldn't find it.  
> Google also doesn't help. Do you have a spec reference and examples of how  
> this would look like?

The spec is here: http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/working_documents/mpeg-b/dash/dash-dis.zip

The "Basic On Demand" profile is in Section 8.3 and there is an example in Annex F.1.

...Mark

> 
>> Also I have a quick update, we are implementing a prototype of WebM  
>> adaptive
>> streaming in Chromium. The prototype will use a manifest as a place  
>> holder
>> for now because we think this will be the fastest way to develop and test
>> the architecture needed to playback adaptive streaming presentations.
> 
> That's very interesting, I look forward to seeing that in action (and  
> copying it into Opera).
> 
> -- 
> Philip Jägenstedt
> Core Developer
> Opera Software
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