FPWD: Media Capabilities

Media Capabilities

https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-media-capabilities-20200130/

Abstract

This specification intends to provide APIs to allow websites to make an optimal decision when picking media content for the user. The APIs will expose information about the decoding and encoding capabilities for a given format but also output capabilities to find the best match based on the device’s display.

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The Media Working Group maintains a list of all bug reports that the group has not yet addressed. This draft highlights some of the pending issues that are still to be discussed in the working group. No decision has been taken on the outcome of these issues including whether they are valid. Pull requests with proposed specification text for outstanding issues are strongly encouraged. 

This document was published by the Media Working Group as a Working Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. 

This document is a First Public Working Draft. 

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This document is governed by the 1 March 2019 W3C Process Document.

Received on Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:27:48 UTC