Re: [MF-TC] Setup

2009/4/30 Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>:
> 2009/4/29 Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>:
>>  - The ',' is mandatory in case a time segment is specified, consequently,
>> TC0008 is not a legal media fragment URI. The output should be: the whole
>> resource is sent and the UA seeks to 10s.
>>
>> The various empty time/segment/track/id test cases need indeed to be further
>> discussed.
>>
>>>  + TC0008, though desirable, will currently fail due to our MF Grammar
>>
>> Yes.
>> Actually, TC0008 and TC0009 captures the same thing ... i.e., do not break
>> the current behavior of the hash when one does not enter the media frag URI
>> syntax.
>
> Is there any particular reason for not allowing this "legacy deep linking"?
>
> I'd suggest there is a use-case for this, where someone wants to point
> to the start of an interesting scene, or a link that skips the
> trailers. It actually takes quite a bit more manual work to decide on
> an end point, and I think it would be fair to imply an end-point of
> "the end of the resource" if none is explicitly given. In any case,
> "the end of the resource" is something already known by the server, so
> it's a bit redundant (even inaccurate) to force a document author to
> find it out and encode it in the URL.
>
> To clarify, if the resource on the server is 20s in duration, then I
> think the offsets t=10 and t=10,20 should produce the same result.
>
>
> Just today I found this interesting offset:
> http://www.archive.org/download/Mushroom_Attack/Mushroom_Attack.ogv?t=1:13:00
>
> and, really, the movie just gets better and better from that point
> onwards. Do I really need to define an end point? I wish it would
> never end! but alas, as with all stories involving mutant fungus, it
> does.

I am with Conrad on this (the technical reasoning, not the mushroom movie!).

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:30:21 UTC