RE: updates to requirements document

Sorry if I'm missing context, but is there counter proposal or are you just warning us that this is a long haul?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy B. Terriberry [mailto:tterriberry@mozilla.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:50 AM
To: public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: Re: updates to requirements document

Randell Jesup wrote:
> And...  Defining the associated control information needed for 
> decoding is a significant task, especially as it would need to be 
> codec-agnostic.  (Which from the conversation I think you realize.) 
> This also is an API that I believe we at Mozilla (or some of us) 
> disagree with (though I'm not the person primarily following this; I 
> think Robert O'Callahan and Tim Terriberry are).

More than just codec-agnostic. It would have to be a) flexible enough to support all the formats people care about (already challenging by
itself) while b) well-defined enough to be re-implementable by every vendor in a compatible way. This leaves you quite a fine needle to thread.

I don't want people to under-estimate how much work is involved here.

Received on Wednesday, 11 July 2012 16:05:27 UTC