Re: MPEG-U widget extensions

On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:

> On 24 Feb 2012, at 14:39, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>  
> > On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi,
> > >  
> > > Looks like MPEG-U also defined extensions related to inter-widget communications:
> > >  
> > > http://concolato.wp.institut-telecom.fr/widgets/mpeg-u/
> > >  
> > > ... which has been standardised as ISO/IEC 23007-1:2010.
> > >  
> > > How does this fit our IWC use cases?
> >  
> > I honestly never looked at the work those guys did in any detail :( I'm also not aware of any MPEG-U user agents in the market.  
>  
> I know Samsung were involved in this work, but I also couldn't find any MPEG-U implementations when I did a quick search.
>  
> However, if there is an existing IWC spec it would make sense to use it rather than invent another ...  
>  

Well, at least we should have a look at it to determine if it meets the use cases (and if it can be implemented on various platforms…. there may be other, um *cough* IPR *cough*, issues :) ).  


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Marcos Caceres

Received on Friday, 24 February 2012 15:16:58 UTC