- From: Nicolas LE GALL <me@neovov.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:29:42 +0200
- To: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Le 29 août 08 à 16:46, Maurice a écrit : > > um... uh.... how about... the user agent (when there's an api for > this stuff) indicates that the video tag has multiple "subs" and > presents a way for the user to choose one. It probably also presents > a convenient 1 click "download this file" which would save both the > video and subtitle file simultaneously Why not, but I think browser's vendor will hate you ;) If I follow you the same dialog box will be poped if the user want to save a video with separates audio files (the audio synced to video you've talked about) ? >> I think examining the media files will cause too much problems : >> >> - Making an algorithm to parse the media header to retrieve the >> metadata (depending on the codec used the header can have a >> variable size — just presuming) >> - For the media provider it will consume some brandwith which is >> the most expensive charge (at this moment) >> - I think parsing a media file cost more computer resources than >> parsing an HTML document >> - Need a soft to edit the data (OK, you definetly need a soft to >> encode... But if you made a mistake editing some HTML attributes/ >> elements is lighter than opening the media in a soft, editing it >> and uploading it again) > > You've completely lost me there. > Like I was saying. There are _server side_ libraries for php (and > other languages) that can pull all the data you'd want to know about > a multimedia file. I just scan the files when the user uploads them > and save the most important info to a database (codec, length, etc) > Since I already have this data I figured it would be easy to put it > on the page with some sort of microformat or dedicated media meta > data tags. Oups sorry... My mistake, I failed when selecting which answer I wanted to quote. I was answering to Henri : Le 25 août 08 à 13:48, Ian Hickson a écrit : > Right now there is no way to do this other than actually examining the > media files. -- Nicolas LE GALL http://blog.neovov.com FOAF : http://blog.neovov.com/foaf.rdf
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