Re: Draft of Second Screen Presentation Working Group Charter available (was: Heads-Up: Plan for Working Group on Second Screen Presentation)

On 20 May 2014, at 15:36, Bassbouss, Louay <louay.bassbouss@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> I understand and agree if the url of requestSession points to an Html document and not to other content types. The background of my question was related to the discussion about considering existing media rendering devices like UPnP/DLNA MediaRenderer that can consume media content without further processing on the control device.

If the initiating User Agent knows (by consulting the OS, for example) how to talk to devices such as media renderers it can do further optimizations and instead of converting the rendering into video, pass the URL of the video directly to the media renderer. This process is transparent to the web developer, mediated by the User Agent.

To facilitate this process, the HTML spec could add an extra attribute to the HTMLVideoElement to allow annotating <video>s that are meaningful to the user if played back in fullscreen mode without the "HTML shell” that wraps the <video>. This would be a hint that such video content could be passed to devices such as media renderers intact.

This group could propose such an extension to be added to the HTMLVideoElement (either to the HTML spec itself [preferred], or specify this in an extension spec).

Thanks,

-Anssi

Received on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 13:14:35 UTC