Re: video aspect use case

> The television would request a 16:9 fragment of the video (or version of 
> the video, depending on the outcome of ? vs #) to avoid doing the 
> cropping internally.

I would actually turn the use case the other way around:

[[
Silvia owns a old television that can only display the 4:3 ratio and not 
the modern widescreen aspect ratios. To avoid paying a premium in 
network fees, she would like the television to request only what can be 
displayed to avoid wasting bandwidth.
]]

So:
http://www.greatmovies.com/StarWars.mp4#aspect=4:3 will request the 4:3 
fragment of this movie while
http://www.greatmovies.com/StarWars.mp4#aspect=16:9 will request the 
16:9 fragment of it

I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29 a	 useful 
documentation.

   Raphaël

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Raphaël Troncy
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Received on Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:04:03 UTC