Re: Applying constraints from Martin Thomson on 2013-03-25 (public-media-capture@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:45:48 -0700
To: Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com>
Cc: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnUdDx8MoLoL2vKcUWhMxNF1dXW-RaxYb4Au=d=6nLKC8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 25 March 2013 10:11, Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com> wrote:
>> We have to decide if the optional constraints apply even if the
>> mandatory ones can't be applied.  I have a separate proposal on that.
>
> This is an interesting question.  I have always assumed (based on constraints historically being used for track selection) that failure to apply one or more mandatory constraints resulted in no application of constraints.

We can't have that.  Assumptions that is.  I believe that the correct
approach is to treat the entire block of constraints (mandatory +
optional++) as a single block with a shared fate.  If we have optional
constraints.

Received on Monday, 25 March 2013 17:46:20 UTC