Re: [Research paper] Evaluation of HTML5 video implementations

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Davis <ddavis@w3.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It was good to see so many of you at our TPAC meeting last week.
>
> Here is something I thought should be shared - a technical paper on web
> video by three German researchers. It's an independent assessment of
> HTML5 video support focussing on event mechanisms and seeking accuracy:
>
> "A Comparative Evaluation of Current HTML5 Web Video Implementations"
> http://www.ronpub.com/publications/OJWT-v1i2n01_Hoernig.pdf
>
> It's good to see a peer-reviewed openly-available academic paper on this
> subject and I hope there will be more, leading to greater shared knowledge.
>

One thing that this paper doesn't seem to cover is hardware decoder backed
implementations (e.g. Opera for TV, Chromecast, etc) which tend to have a
different set of problems from the desktop product counterparts.

Chromium on desktop and Chromecast will most likely behave differently when
the tests here are done - even if they both are "Chrome". (And it wouldn't
surprise
me one bit if there were such problems in hardware decoder backed mobile
browsers
as well.)

-- 
Sangwhan Moon [Opera Software ASA]
Software Engineer | Tokyo, Japan