Fwd: [MSE] Guidance on how to proceed with Bug 17002

Hi all,

I just came across this issue in the HTML WG (media task force).

Can we please clarify the situation?

Thanks,
Silvia.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aaron Colwell <acolwell@google.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:21 AM
Subject: [MSE] Guidance on how to proceed with Bug 17002
To: "<public-html-media@w3.org>" <public-html-media@w3.org>


Hi,

I had a few action items related to Bug 17002, but I've run into some
unexpected snags that I'd like some guidance on.

In comment 4 of the bug I pointed out some inconsistencies between the
Media Fragments spec and the HTML 5 spec.  When I started
investigating how to file a bug against the Media Fragments spec, I
discovered that Latest Editor's draft and the Proposed Recommendation
have very different text. The Proposed Recommendation, which appears
to be more recent, doesn't even have the "Track Dimension" section.
Digging throught the mailing list history it appears that this was
going to be moved to an "advanced" spec, but the links to that point
to a document that has no mention of the "id" or "track" dimensions.
This raises a few questions that I'd like help with.

1. Which document am I supposed pay attention to?

2. If I should be looking at the Proposed Recommendation, then should
I file a bug against the HTML5 spec that asks to remove the references
to the MediaFragment spec in the AudioTrack.id & VideoTrack.id since
the track dimension doesn't exist in that document?

3. Are there plans to develop the advanced Media Fragments spec? The
mailing-list looks pretty dead these days.

4. If the answer to #2 is yes and the answer to #3 is no, then should
a bug be filed to remove the id attribute since it appears that it was
created for MediaFragment interop?

5. Does it still make sense to file a bug against TextTrack for the
missing id field since it appears the primary reason for this field
was to interact with MediaFragments?

6. Should I change the proposed fix to Bug 17002 to the following so
the solution is independent of the id field?

partial interface MediaSource {
  SourceBuffer? getSourceBuffer(VideoTrack videoTrack);
  SourceBuffer? getSourceBuffer(AudioTrack audioTrack);
  SourceBuffer? getSourceBuffer(TextTrack textTrack);
}

Aaron

Received on Friday, 21 September 2012 23:01:59 UTC