- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:50:21 +0200
- To: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Maurice wrote: > I think it would be easier to have a general purpose way of accessing > whatever is associate with the <video> and determining whether it's > another audio or video file or text or something. Allowing page authors > to do something with them is great but I really think this is something > Browser developers should work on providing in their <video> UI. > Hopefully they'll realize the benefits of being able to brag about > having the most hearing-impaired-friendly video implementation. > > <video> > <source>kongzilla.ogg</source> > ... > <timedtext src="kzsubtitles_en.sub">English Subtitles By > KongJrD@wgz98</timedtext> > ... > <alternateaudio> > <audio src="kzfrenchDubTrack.mp3">French Dub </audio> > </alternateaudio> > > <simultaneous_audio> > <audio src="KZ_DirectorComments.mp3">Directors Commentary</audio> > ... > </simultaneous_audio> > </video> > > ... again, this would all depend on the browser devs making such things > accessible to the user in their video interface... You are reinventing a video container format, without all the advantages of having the streams muxed together in a single file, and then depending on the ability of a player to play multiple files simultaneously and in sync. That's not going to work. Take a look at, for example, Matroska with tools like MKVMerge. That tool allows you to combine all your video, audio, subtitle, chapter and other streams, all with metadata, into a single MKV container file. Then open it up in any player that supports it (e.g. VLC, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player (with CCCP installed), or QuickTime on OS X (with Perian installed). These allow you to select and play different audio, video and subtitle streams. > I realize now this sounds a lot like features from a dvd... If you want DVD like features, then the Matroska project is apparently also working on developing a similar menu system for use with MKV too. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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