HTML5 - Video and audio codecs for video elements

This part of the HTML5 W3C Editor's Draft, 28 June 2007,
particularly interested me.

> 3.14.7.1. Video and audio codecs for video elements
> 
> User agents may support any video and audio codecs and container formats.
> 
> User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [OGG] 

Making a big assumption, that there haven't been any developments on the
specification, I welcome the inclusion of OGG/Theora/Vorbis.

My wishlist for video in HTML includes:

*an ability to associate a still image,
*streaming and
*captioning for the hearing impaired/description for the visually impaired.
*dubbing/alternate audio streams
*File size/alternate versions - for those with limited bandwidth/alternate devices.
*Timecoded playlists


My experiments with OGG on the web are at
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html>
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/creativecommons-fedora-openvide-contest-entry.html>
<http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/restoration.shtml>

Marghanita
-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: 0414 869202

Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 08:46:56 UTC