W3C Public Newsletter, 2016-10-10

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Call for Review: Media Source Extensions™ Proposed Recommendation Published

   4 October 2016
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5868>

   The HTML Media Extensions Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Media Source Extensions™."

   <https://www.w3.org/html/wg/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/PR-media-source-20161004/>

   This specification allows JavaScript to dynamically construct media streams for <audio> and <video>. It defines a MediaSource object that can serve as a source of media data for an HTMLMediaElement. MediaSource objects have one or more SourceBuffer objects. Applications append data segments to the SourceBuffer objects, and can adapt the quality of appended data based on system performance and other factors. Data from the SourceBuffer objects is managed as track buffers for audio, video and text data that is decoded and played. Byte stream specifications used with these extensions are available in the byte stream format registry. Comments are welcome through 1 November 2016.

   The group also published the following specifications as Working Group Notes:

     * Media Source Extensions Byte Stream Format Registry
     * MPEG-2 TS Byte Stream Format
     * MPEG Audio Byte Stream Format
     * ISO BMFF Byte Stream Format
     * WebM Byte Stream Format

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Workshops

     * 2016-10-19 (19 OCT) – 2016-10-20 (20 OCT)
       Web & Virtual Reality Workshop
       <https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/>
       San Jose, CA, USA
       Hosted by Samsung
       The Workshop will look at the intersection of Web and Virtual Reality technologies. It aims at enabling the sharing of experiences between practitioners of the field, discuss existing gaps in the Web platform that make some Virtual Reality use cases difficult or impossible in browsers today, and explore what future standards are needed to pave the way for the Web to be one of the major VR platforms.
     * 2016-11-30 (30 NOV) – 2016-12-01 ( 1 DEC)
       Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)
       <https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sdsvoc/>
       Amsterdam
       CWI with support from the VRE4EIC project
       The workshop will cover a variety of related issues: how to manage a vocabulary in a collaborative environment, how to define an application profile for human and machine consumption, how to request data using a specific profile and, as a prime example of all this - experiences of using "DCAT" that might lead to its extension.
       <https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/>

W3C Blog

     * None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
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Upcoming Talks

     * 2016-10-12 (12 OCT)
       Digital Contracts: The new economy disruptor
       <http://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/upcoming.asp#Iannella>
       by Renato Iannella
       HKU Experts Address Series
       Hong Kong, Hong Kong
     * 2016-10-14 (14 OCT)
       Connected books & CSS
       <https://www.w3.org/Talks/2016/1014-CSS-Sao-Paulo/>
       keynote by Bert Bos
       Web.br 2016 Conferência Web W3C Brasil
       <http://conferenciaweb.w3c.br/>
       São Paulo, Brazil
     * 2016-10-14 (14 OCT)
       Current W3C Activities
       <https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1014_phila_uki/>
       by Phil Archer
       W3C UK & Ireland Office Launch
       Southampton, United Kingdom
     * 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
       The WAI to Web Accessibility: An Interactive Tour Through Resources form the W3C Web Accessibility
       Accessing Higher Ground
       <http://accessinghigherground.org/>
       Colorado, USA
     * 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
       Petroleum retail opportunities with the web
       by Bernard Gidon
       IFSF annual conference
       <http://www.ifsf.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/ifsf_newsletter_august_2016.pdf>
       Schiphol, The Netherlands
     * 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
       XForms, the only Standard Web Framework
       <http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/11-21-nluug>
       by Steven Pemberton
       NLUUG najaarsconferentie
       <https://www.nluug.nl/events/>
       Bunnik, The Netherlands

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