Re: ISSUE-2: What is the mime type of a media fragment? What is its relation with its parent resource?

At 13:26  +0100 27/01/09, Raphaël Troncy wrote:
>ISSUE-2: What is the mime type of a media 
>fragment? What is its relation with its parent 
>resource?

I think this is a confused question.  When a fragment is specified on a URI,

http:/www.example.com/silvia.mov#chapter=vienna

the user-agent separates the fragment from the 
URI and requests the main part of the resource 
over HTTP, and then interprets the fragment 
locally.  The HTTP server, which gives the MIME 
type, is unaware of the fragment.  Even if it 
gets the fragment in the URI GET, it is (I think) 
supposed to ignore it.  So the MIME type of a 
fragmented resource is the MIME type of the 
resource, isn't it?

>
>http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/tracker/issues/2
>Raised by: Raphël Troncy
>
>Related to a discussion started by Guillaume [1].
>
>A media fragment URI can be used for addressing, 
>for example, a particular audio track of a mkv 
>movie, or a particular key-frame of a video. 
>What is the resulting mime type of the secondary 
>resource specified by the fragment (audio, 
>thumbnail, text)? Should we specify it in the 
>recommendation?
>What RFC3986 does say about the mime type of a fragment [2]?
>
>Side issue: in case we create a new resource 
>(i.e. using the query '?' parameter instead of 
>the fragment '#' parameter), how do we make 
>explicit the relationship with the parent 
>resource it was extracted from?
>Do we use Link: rel="part_of" <video_uri> as suggested by Yves [3]?
>
>[1] 
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2008Nov/0076.html
>[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5
>[3] 
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2008Dec/0011.html
>
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Received on Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:09:28 UTC