Re: Proposal from HbbTV

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Jon Piesing <Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com> wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2014 21:48, "Jon Piesing" <Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Sylvia,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
>>> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> > The relevant angle here is the Web, since we're in the W3C. When you
>>> > use a Web browser or a Web browser's rendering engine to render video,
>>> > you have to ascertain that it still fits within the limitations of the
>>> > Web platform and its technologies. That's all really.
>>>
>>> That's one perspective. Another perspective is that the web browser is
>>> just controlling a media player provided by the platform which has an
>>> existence outside the Web platform.
>
>
>>That's not how html5 video works. The player is part of the browser, not a
>> separate application.
>
>
> The embedded browsers that I know all call a media player library (not
> application) provided by the platform - the same media player library used
> by other features of the platform.

A library is not a player: the only interface you're seeing is still
the Web interface, so that doesn't change what I said earlier.

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Sunday, 12 October 2014 11:24:47 UTC