Implementation report of Synote Media Fragment Player

Hi all,

Attached is the implementation report of Synote Media Fragment Player [1],
which is used by the UK Parliament Demo [2]. The player is a client-side
implementation of Media Fragment URI mainly on temporal dimension. The
player uses Thomas Steiner's media fragment parser to resolve the URI
fragments and I wrote a javascript programme to control the presentation of
media fragment URIs on the Web page. So the whole player is actually an
implementation of section 3.2 of [3].  

The test results are also available at [4]. On that page, you can click the
link of each test case and see how the player actually works for each test
case. My test mainly uses Firefox under windows 7 platform and I use
fragf2f.ogv as the test video. You can also go to the demo page at [5], and
enter any media fragment URIs (including URIs from Youtube) as long as the
media resource is accessible online. The programme will choose an
appropriate player (such as JW player, windows media player, etc) to embed
on the webpage and deliver the visual output of the media fragment based on
the file format, browser and platform. The player is still in the
development stage, so there might be quite a few bugs. I am planning to
include Quicktime player, HTML5 native player and VLC player later, so
hopefully, the media fragment URIs for major audio and video formats  can be
replayed cross-browsers.

Please feel free to contact me if there are any problems. Maybe some us can
work together to make a general client-side implementation of Media Fragment
URI spec. I am also willing to make contributions to the specification if
possible. Many thanks.

[1]
http://synote-server.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8082/media-fragment-player/index.html
[2]
http://synote-server.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8082/parliament4u/debateResource/replay
[3] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-spec/
[4] http://synote-server.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8082/media-fragment-player/tc.html
[5]
http://synote-server.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8082/media-fragment-player/demo.html

Best regards
Yunjia Li

PhD Student & Research Fellow
Web and Internet Science Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science 
The University of Southampton 
Southampton SO17 1BJ 
http://afterglowlee.blogspot.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Davy Van Deursen [mailto:davy.vandeursen@ugent.be] 
Sent: 03 November 2011 07:33
To: Media Fragment
Cc: yl2
Subject: Implementation report generation

Dear all (and in particular the ones who need to provide an implementation
report),

I've prepared a fill-in page at [1] for assisting you in preparing the
implementation report. As you will see, you need to fill in some details
about the implementation and tester. Further, for each test case, the link
to the media fragment URI that needs to be tested is provided (see column
'Input'), as well as a combo box where you can select whether your
implementation passes, fails, ... the test case. In case it didn't pass, you
may add some remarks about why it didn't pass.

When everything is filled in, you push the button "Download EARL report",
which will provide you with a RDF turtle file compliant to the EARL format
[2]. When you have this file, please send it to this list; I will generate
an HTML view for it (an example of the resulting report for the NinSuna
Media Fragments Player can be found at [3]).

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Davy

[1] http://ninsuna.elis.ugent.be/MFWG/ua-test-cases-report.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10/
[3]
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/results/ua/NinSunaMediaFragment
sPlayer-report

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Davy Van Deursen

Ghent University - IBBT
Department of Electronics and Information Systems - Multimedia Lab
URL: http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be/dvdeurse