Re: [MSE] transport stream constraints vs Apple's HLS

I think it's worth saying that one of the main motivations to support MPEG-2 Transport Streams at all is to be able to take stuff 'as is' from environments that use them, and re-purpose it.  That argues for the minimum number of restrictions.  If people are going to be asked to transcode, then a change of format might also be possible (though 'using existing tooling' also comes into play).

It's one of the reasons that HLS uses transport streams, I think.

So, having the possibility of using essentially unconstrained TSs -- possibly with consequences that can be averted by adopting constraints -- makes sense.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:39:48 UTC