Audiovisual Media for Browsers Community Group Proposed

The Audiovisual Media for Browsers Community Group has been proposed:

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Over the past decade, a growing number of sound and imaging media
formats have been established offering increasingly sophisticated user
experiences such as High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Spatial Audio. On the
imaging side, these media formats provide the technical means to
facilitate increased spatial and temporal resolutions, higher bit
depths, as well as varying color volumes and the mapping between them.
Similarly, on the audio side, higher bit-depth, sample rates and more
immersive surround sound and speech processing options are available.
These experiences are facilitated through tools and technical mechanisms
available to both professional and consumer content providers and are
readily available for linear content types. However, options to provide
such experiences through the web are still limited as potential
solutions are fragmented and often insular or significantly limited in
capabilities among open source as well as proprietary options. This
typically results in incorrect presentation to an end user or even error
messages. 
Therefore, there is need to consider how to support modern audiovisual
formats in a W3C context. To alleviate friction in development and
deployment, it seems highly beneficial to our community to synchronize
open and proprietary solutions so that they can co-exist within a W3C
framework. The scope of this community group is to provide a forum for
those discussions.


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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#av4browsers

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 5 August 2022 20:08:25 UTC