On video formats (was: CfC: to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD))

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 11:40 +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> Everybody who has to provide both MP4 and WebM video
> files for web video (due to a failure of the W3C to specify a standard
> which is not patent encumbered) is aware of that kind of problem.

There are two aspects here:
1. HTML5 does not require specific image, audio, caption, or video
formats. It is format agnostic and there is a desire in the Working
Group to keep it that way.
2. If you're aware of a video format that everyone is willing to
support, feel to write a proposal. Note that the IETF is in the middle
of discussion to create a Group on video codecs. Cf also the statement
we sent to them back in November. They released last year Opus, an audio
codec that covers use cases needed for WebRTC.

Philippe

Received on Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:19:36 UTC