- From: Jon Piesing <Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:31:04 +0000
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-inbandtracks@w3.org" <public-inbandtracks@w3.org>, Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>, Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
>>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer >>>> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> <snip> >>>> > The relevant angle here is the Web, since we're in the W3C. When you >>>> > use a Web browser or a Web browser's rendering engine to render video, >>>> > you have to ascertain that it still fits within the limitations of the >>>> > Web platform and its technologies. That's all really. >>>> >>>>> That's one perspective. Another perspective is that the web browser is >>>>> just controlling a media player provided by the platform which has an >>>>> existence outside the Web platform. >> >> >>>That's not how html5 video works. The player is part of the browser, not a >>> separate application. > >> The embedded browsers that I know all call a media player library (not >> application) provided by the platform - the same media player library used >> by other features of the platform. >A library is not a player: the only interface you're seeing is still >the Web interface, so that doesn't change what I said earlier. That's your point of view. Mine is different. Everyone is entitled to their own point of view. Jon
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