RE: Recap of TPAC discussion

> > Are we planning to expose the metadata as JSON or something like that,
> >or would it make more sense to expose it as binary?
> >
> >I'm personally a fan of JSON, but it sounds like other developers would
> >prefer directly exposing the original binary (although in some cases,
> >like MPEG-TS, that might be a *lot* of data).
> 
> I am going to propose the same encoding - a hexadecimal representation.
> This will be easier for the UA than JSON.

But if the contents are binary, we might as well just define it as binary. Base64 encoding and putting it in a string seems unnecessary.

Received on Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:04:55 UTC