Re: Temporal fragments of media with time stamps

On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:06 , Jack Jansen wrote:

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> On 16 jan 2010, at 10:25, Davy Van Deursen wrote:
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>> Temporal fragments should indeed take into account embedded time stamps.

'may', I think, surely.  It depends on whether the fragment time is expressed in NPT, or (say) SMPTE time-codes.  NPT starts at 0;  to resolve a fragment here, you're fine without inspecting the media.

SMPTE time-codes, OTOH, need to be found.  They might not even be continuous in the media.

>> Note that this is already stated in the specification [1].
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>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Davy
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/#processing-overview-interpretation  
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> Thanks for finding this one!
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> But: this means that we have to look through the protocol description with this in mind. 
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> If I have a video http://www.example.com/example.mp4, which has 10 seconds worth of video, with timestamps 01:00:00:00 through 01:00:10:00, and a UA sends a request
> with 
> 	Range: t:smpte=01:00:05:00-01:00:06:00
> what does it get back in the Content-Range header?
> I would assume the timestamps are as expected, but what is the duration returned? 
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 18 January 2010 01:38:50 UTC