[Bug 13359] A way is needed to identify the type of data in a track element

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13359

--- Comment #5 from Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> 2011-08-20 03:08:37 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> To expand, consider 3rd party P adding three in-band signaling tracks: IB1 -
> content advisories for parental control, IB2 - SCTE35 segment descriptors for
> targeted advertising and IB3 - EISS for interactive television. The user agent
> executing Page O recognizes these in-band tracks and sources them as three
> different track elements with kind = metadata as described in [1]. Since the
> user agent knows how to recognize these in-band tracks it can inform JS of the
> metadata type by a new TextTrack.type IDL attribute. Without this new
> attribute, JS will have to contain logic to infer the metadata type, redoing
> what the UA has already done.

How would a general-purpose UA (such as Opera, Chrome, Safari or Firefox)
recognize IB1, IB2, and IB3? They are not specified in HTML so there is no
requirement for them to be able to decode them and I haven't seen any moves
that spans across these and other UAs to make IB1-3 a standard-supported format
in them. If there is, then it would make a lot more sense to have actual
kind=IB1-3 values as part of the spec IMHO.

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