Re: Aligning NPT syntax with RTSP

2010/1/27 Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
>> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-spec/#npttime
>>
>> This is what I mentioned in the teleconf. As it is, '0.' would not be a
>> valid production of npttime but it is a valid production of npt-sec from
>> RTSP [1]. The same is true of '00:00:00.'. The difference is in digits after
>> the decimal point.
>
> We currently have:
>
> npttime    ::=          ( 1*DIGIT [ "." 1*DIGIT ] [ timeunit ] ) |
>                        ( 1*DIGIT ":" 2DIGIT ":" 2DIGIT [ "." 1*DIGIT] )
>
> which I think you are proposing to change to
>
> npttime    ::=          ( 1*DIGIT [ "." *DIGIT ] [ timeunit ] ) |
>                        ( 1*DIGIT ":" 2DIGIT ":" 2DIGIT [ "." *DIGIT] )
>
> Correct?
>
>
>> I would suggest simply importing npt-sec and npt-hhmmss from RFC2326,
>> dropping the 's' completely for simplicity. Since it isn't needed to
>> disambiguate and any existing software should tolerate omitting the s,
>> removing it shouldn't be a problem, right?
>
> IIRC, we added the "s" to be more compatible with some existing
> implementations such as the YouTube spec.

Only partly, doesn't YouTube also allow an m, eg. 5m42s

> I'm not sure if we have a record of that decision though.

I don't recall a decision to include the YouTube syntax either, though
we have surely talked about it.

Conrad.