- From: Christian Timmerer (ITEC) <christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:09:15 +0200
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, public-media-fragment@w3.org
...to me this sounds more like describing the capabilities of the device rather than requesting a fragment. Best regards, -Christian On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Raphaël Troncy wrote: >> 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 > > -- > Raphaël Troncy > EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department > 2229, route des Crêtes, 06560 Sophia Antipolis, France. > e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com > Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 > Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 > Web: http://www.cwi.nl/~troncy/ >
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