Re: Is there proposal of accessing metadata of media files?

Hi, Arthur, all.

Thank you for pointing some resource and providing description.
I understand with regret there isn't APIs which will be fixed or
implemented in the near future.

Regards.

--shumpei

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> WebApps does have a related deliverable in its charter:
>
> [[
> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/charter/#deliverables
>
> Metadata Access and Extensible Information for Media (MAXIM)
>    a generic API for accessing metadata embedded in or linked to media files
> ]]
>
> However, as you can see from WebApps' publication status wiki, work on this
> spec is not active because of related work ongoing by the Media Annotations
> WG:
>
> [[
> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/PubStatus#API_Specifications
>
> Media Object (http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/MediaObject/publish/) - This
> spec is not active because it is expected to be replaced by the Media Object
> API in progress by the Media Annotations WG; see Media Object API Use Cases
> and Requirements (http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090604/)
> ]]
>
> Soohong, Media Annotations WG - would you please provide a short
> update/status and plans regarding your Media API spec? Also, is this the
> most recent API document:
>
>  http://dev.w3.org/2008/video/mediaann/mediaont-api-1.0/mediaont-api-1.0.html
>
> -Regards, Art Barstow
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: ext Shumpei Shiraishi <shumpei.shiraishi@gmail.com>
>> Date: October 6, 2009 9:16:25 PM EDT
>> To: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
>> Subject: Is there proposal of accessing metadata of media files?
>> Archived-At:
>> <http://www.w3.org/mid/104ce6580910061816p681237c3ua555e8c5dce9b02a@mail.gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi, all
>>
>> I'm looking for the API proposal of accessing metadata of media files.
>>
>> For example, I'll want to access metadata of audio files for to get
>> it's title, artists, etc.
>> Or, if I need to get the shooting time of photo, I'll want to get it
>> from JPEG's EXIF header.
>>
>> Is there API proposal which satisfies these case?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Shumpei Shiraishi
>>
>>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2009 07:15:44 UTC