Re: Recap of TPAC discussion

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Brendan Long <B.Long@cablelabs.com> wrote:
>> > 1. Mapping of container metadata (e.g. descriptors, ...) onto HTML Tracks
>> > interfaces
>> > 2. Mapping of media tracks onto HTML Tracks interfaces
>>
>> I don't understand the difference between point 1 and 2 or what point
>> 3 actually means, can you elaborate a little bit?
>
> Not all metadata is in a normal track (in the original file). For example, "chapters" are frequently stored in a special way. Two examples are Matroska / WebM chapters[1] and MPEG-TS PMTs[2].
>
> [1] http://matroska.org/technical/specs/chapters/index.html
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream#PMT

I see. How do people want to expose things which don't fit in a
AudioTrack, VideoTrack or TextTrack?

Philip

Received on Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:35:25 UTC