Transcript RealNetworks

What I Would Like To Do With
Video On The Web, But Can’t*
(And How The W3C Can Help)
Eric Hyche
Technical Lead, RealNetworks Inc.
Co-Chair, W3C SYMM Working Group
[email protected]
I Would Like To:
Add Value To Content I Don’t Own
Add Text and Graphic Annotations
Notice The Rendering of “Sky-Iron”
Control Playback Declaratively
Add My Own Commentary Track
I Would Like To:
Use Richer Meta-Data
• Send a link to a friend which shows last
night’s episode of “The Office” right where
John says “Ok, let’s get started”.
I Would Like To:
Use Richer Meta-Data
• Find all scenes in “Ratatouille” where Remy
and his father are on screen together
I Would Like To:
Take Web Video Offline Seamlessly
I Would Like To:
Take Web Video Offline Seamlessly
Record Stream
How The W3C Can Help
• Standardize in W3C’s natural domain
• Temporal and Spatial Meta-Data
• DRM-agnostic rights expression language
• Server-side playlist files
How the W3C Can Hinder
• Make HTML5 <video>
• Incompatible with SMIL
• Not future-proof
• Try to standardize:
• codecs
• file formats
• delivery protocols
• Standardize outside their natural domain