- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:09:45 -0800
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:57 , Jonas Sicking wrote: >>> Because that's an open-ended problem, >> >> I still don't understand. How is getting the 'no save' meta data >> different from getting meta data like duration and frame rate? >> > > pretty well any media subsystem worth using will tell you the width and height, duration, etc. of the media. Not many have explicit access to this kind of data; you'd need special-purpose code to grovel around in movie files, mp4 files, avi files, ogg files, mxf files, rtsp SDP descriptions, mpeg-2 transport streams, .... well, you get the idea. I see. I still feel like this is an implementation limitation that can be overcome though. Seems silly to cement this in standards forever just because of a limitation in API that can be fixed if the interested parties just invested enough time to expose this data through the various levels of API. I guess we could argue more about it if this proposal goes anywhere. Based on experiences with the exact same proposal for font formats though, I suspect and hope it won't. / Jonas
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