- From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:42:43 +0100
- To: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
Jack Jansen a écrit : > I think you are assuming here that there is still one single unified > timeline across the whole video, correct? yes > That would be the case for the use cases you explicitly mention here, > but there are other multiplexed videos where this isn't the case, think > of movies in airline cut/normal cut/directors cut. This means that > timestamps become messy: either "00h:02m:00s:00f" becomes ambiguous > (could be different points depending on track selection), or arithmetic > on timestamps becomes impossible (depending on track selection > "00h:02m:00s:00f" may or may not be 60 seconds after "00h:01m:00s:00f". interesting example, indeed. But, I would rather consider the different "cuts" to be different videos. Indeed, the timeline is, in my view, a fundamental aspect of a video. > I would be happy if we stated somewhere (in > <http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/wiki/Glossary>?) that our > idea of a video is something with a single unified timeline, as the > image on the glossay page currently also suggests. +1 pa
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