Audiovisual Media Formats for Browsers Community Group Launched

With your support, the Audiovisual Media Formats for Browsers Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/av4browsers/

This group was originally proposed on 2022-08-05
by Patrick Griffis. The following people supported its
creation: 
      Patrick Griffis
      Robin Wilson
      J. Alan Bird
      Chris Needham
      Hyojin Song
  
To join the group, please use:
 http://www.w3.org/community/av4browsers/join

Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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Over the past decade, a growing number of sound and imaging media
formats have been established offering increasingly sophisticated user
experiences such as High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Spatial Audio. On the
imaging side, these media formats provide the technical means to
facilitate increased spatial and temporal resolutions, higher bit
depths, as well as varying color volumes and the mapping between them.
Similarly, on the audio side, higher bit-depth, sample rates and more
immersive surround sound and speech processing options are available.
These experiences are facilitated through tools and technical mechanisms
available to both professional and consumer content providers and are
readily available for linear content types. However, options to provide
such experiences through the web are still limited as potential
solutions are fragmented and often insular or significantly limited in
capabilities among open source as well as proprietary options. This
typically results in incorrect presentation to an end user or even error
messages. 
Therefore, there is need to consider how to support modern audiovisual
formats in a W3C context. To alleviate friction in development and
deployment, it seems highly beneficial to our community to synchronize
open and proprietary solutions so that they can co-exist within a W3C
framework. The scope of this community group is to provide a forum for
those discussions.

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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Tuesday, 9 August 2022 23:57:34 UTC