Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-08-21 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
Hardly an expert in this field, but wouldn't implementing media tags (video and audio) a tad like websockets be a good idea. Using the tag should add a special header that says it can upgrade conneciton to something like media which constantly lets client have duplex conversation with the server,

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-08-20 Thread Ian Hickson
This is a bulk reply to the feedback that resulted from the following blog post from YouTube's API team: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: So, for a quick recap, their problems are: 1. Standard video format 2.

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-08 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM, John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: MySpace is my canonical example - they allow arbitrary SWFs to be embedded in profiles, but not iframes.  Flash added support a while back that allows containing pages to block SWFs from executing script or accessing the

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:19:42 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: The benefit to the

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:42:22 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.comwrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:24:45 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: Some UAs request video without sending Range:

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread Schalk Neethling
: [whatwg] More YouTube response On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be embedded in the video tag and decoded using installable

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread Marques Johansson
Yes, the browser disconnects, and scripts have no influence over it. With preload=metadata implemented, it should disconnect as soon as possible after getting enough data for the first frame. For preload=auto, it will disconnect after buffering X seconds of data. If you need more granularity

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread John Harding
MySpace is my canonical example - they allow arbitrary SWFs to be embedded in profiles, but not iframes. Flash added support a while back that allows containing pages to block SWFs from executing script or accessing the contents of the page, which MySpace enforces by rewriting the embed tag that

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-07 Thread John Harding
Ok - sounds like pretty much unanimous objection to the idea of DRM plugins being instantiated via video tag. I'll still be pushing on the DRM plugin providers to implement an interface that mimics the video tag - my primary goal is to be able to have a single player implementation independent of

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Marques Johansson
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On Jul 5, 2010, at 13:10, Marques Johansson wrote: For the content that is not protected the download or stream is metered so the client can be charged only for the time they spent watching the content. We error on the

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Marques Johansson
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: The company I work for, VOD.com (sfw) (aka Hotmovies .com and clips .com - nsfw (spaces added)), offer video on demand services to thousands of

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:19:35 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On Jul 5, 2010, at 13:10, Marques Johansson wrote: For the content that is not protected the download or stream is metered so the

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Marques Johansson
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: For my purposes I am interested in application-controlled video delivery. I want to be able to deliver

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Marques Johansson
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.comwrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:19:35 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: Is preload=none not enough? I can't imagine the actual bandwidth savings of more fine-grained control to be significant, probably any

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On 6 Jul 2010, at 15:24, Marques Johansson wrote: A 200 response or partial 206 responses that returns less than the full requested range is not handled by browsers in a consistent or usable way (for this purpose). Only Chrome will continue to fetch where the previous short 206 response

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:33:47 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.comwrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:19:35 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: Is preload=none not enough? I can't imagine

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:24:45 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: For my purposes I am

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Marques Johansson
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.comwrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:24:45 +0200, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: Some UAs request video without sending Range: bytes 0-. The server has no way to negotiate that the UA (a) must use ranges to

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: The benefit to the user is that they could have less open network connections while streaming video from server controlled sites and those sites will have the ability to meter their usage more accurately. Inserting

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-06 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jul 6, 2010, at 06:19, Marques Johansson wrote: That being said, I don't think the business models of one of the largest online video markets should put be on trial through a by a standards list. Well, if you are suggesting that your use case needs to be addressed by introducing

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
2010-07-05 01:56 EEST: David Gerard: On 4 July 2010 13:57, bjartursvartma...@gmail.com wrote: I fail to see how BBC would be harmed by the usage of alternative software. Its business model is about content, not software, right? See, you're using logic and sense ... about half the BBC want

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 July 2010 07:51, Mikko Rantalainen mikko.rantalai...@peda.net wrote: So, you're arguing that DRM is not required, right? I'm arguing that it can't possibly make sense. And that standardising a DRM is not something anyone sensible should touch. Especially, the content distributors

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Schalk Neethling
Harding Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:00 AM To: wha...@whatwg.org Cc: Andy Berkheimer Subject: [whatwg] More YouTube response Glad to see my post spurred some good discussion - I'll try to address topic by topic below, but one of the great points made is that some of the functionality YouTube

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
John Harding jhard...@google.com schrieb am Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:59:37 -0700: 1. Standard Video Format […] On the current path, a content provider knows that by offering H.264 and WebM, they can reach all HTML5-capable browsers. This honestly is a reasonable state for YouTube right now - we

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:45 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: John Harding jhard...@google.com schrieb am Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:59:37 -0700: 1. Standard Video Format […] On the current path, a content provider knows that by offering H.264 and WebM, they can reach all HTML5-capable

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Marques Johansson
The company I work for, VOD.com (sfw) (aka Hotmovies .com and clips .com - nsfw (spaces added)), offer video on demand services to thousands of studios. Our sites are central locations for customers who want to watch something - this is a service in itself. We handle encoding and content

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Practically, I think the ball is / was in Apple's court to decide this. While to this day other browser makers have decided to ship two (!) royalty-free video formats (Theora and VP8),

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Shane Fagan
Internet Explorer 9 will not support VP8 unless the user manually installs the codec. This puts it at the same level of support as Safari has for Theora, as far as I know. So even if we assume every user upgraded to the latest alphas of the browser they used, H.264 is supported by about 65%

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.comwrote: Internet Explorer 9 will not support VP8 unless the user manually installs the codec. This puts it at the same level of support as Safari has for Theora, as far as I know. So even if we assume every user

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2010-07-05 Thread Mike Wilcox
It's the iPhone and especially the iPad which has really pushed the adoption of HTML5 video. And afaik, you can't install WebM on them. To me (and my company) that's where the issue lies. Mike Wilcox http://clubajax.org m...@mikewilcox.net On Jul 5, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Shane Fagan wrote:

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2010-07-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 07/05/2010 04:46 PM, Shane Fagan wrote: For windows maybe there should be a .exe/.msi with the entire package of VP8+Theora+Vorbis or just VP8+Vorbis to make it easier to install There is: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/oggdsf/opencodecs_0.84.17315.exe

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com schrieb am Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:20:12 +0100: If I remember correctly and dont ask me for a link to where I read it but the problem is still patent suits I believe. MPEG-LA as soon as they heard about the VP8 codec open sourcing they said they were

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2010-07-05 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net schrieb am Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:42:13 +0200: May Apple engineers on this list chime in and tell us if patent uncertainity is still an issue ? AFAIK neither Google, nor Mozilla, nor Apple have had difficulties. s/nor Apple/nor

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com wrote: The company I work for, VOD.com (sfw) (aka Hotmovies .com and clips .com - nsfw (spaces added)), offer video on demand services to thousands of studios. Our sites are central locations for customers who want to watch something

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-05 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jul 5, 2010, at 13:10, Marques Johansson wrote: For the content that is not protected the download or stream is metered so the client can be charged only for the time they spent watching the content. We error on the customer's side for things like buffering and misreported play

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-04 Thread bjartur
Lachlan Hunt lachlan.h...@lachy.id.au wrote: On 2010-07-02 21:01, John Harding wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Lachlan Huntlachlan.h...@lachy.id.auwrote: As Henri pointed out, major content producers already broadcast their TV shows and movies over the air without DRM.

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-04 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:09 PM, John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: Yes, it's pretty straightforward to offer iframe-based embed code, but it needs to be coupled with getting sites to accept them, or we end up with a lot of confused, unhappy users. This will only happen if the iframe

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-04 Thread David Gerard
On 4 July 2010 13:57, bjartur svartma...@gmail.com wrote: I fail to see how BBC would be harmed by the usage of alternative software. Its business model is about content, not software, right? See, you're using logic and sense ... about half the BBC want to just *make their stuff available*,

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 23:56 +0100, David Gerard wrote: On 4 July 2010 13:57, bjartur svartma...@gmail.com wrote: I fail to see how BBC would be harmed by the usage of alternative software. Its business model is about content, not software, right? See, you're using logic and sense ...

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-04 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 July 2010 13:57, bjartur svartma...@gmail.com wrote: I fail to see how BBC would be harmed by the usage of alternative software. Its business model is about content, not software, right? See, you're using logic and sense ... about half the BBC

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: Rather than ask browsers to get into the DRM business, what I think would work best is having a means for 3rd party DRM providers to supply browser plug-ins which implement the video tag for protected content - not all that different than selecting a

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Marques Johansson
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:59 PM, John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: 2. Robust Video Streaming Andy Berkheimer on our team has been putting some thought into this, so I'll defer to him for more specific proposals.  For an app like YouTube, it is extremely useful to have fine-grained control

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 02:37 -0700, Henri Sivonen wrote: John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: Rather than ask browsers to get into the DRM business, what I think would work best is having a means for 3rd party DRM providers to supply browser plug-ins which implement the video tag

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Marques Johansson
If the seek method was further hookable it should be possible to add decrypt or transcode methods to interpret the fetched content, possibly requesting more data to the filter stream bucket, before apending the bytes of media. On Jul 2, 2010 6:10 AM, Marques Johansson marq...@displague.com

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be embedded in the video tag and decoded using installable plugins so its not really an

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Julian Reschke
On 02.07.2010 13:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be embedded in the video tag and decoded using

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 13:38 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be embedded in the video

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Marques Johansson
If there were hooks for handling the bytes being requested and supplied to the media object, would you agree that DRM modules could be written with Javascript (if a bit of a straw man - as all DRM is perceived to varying degrees)? I think this could prevent the need for some plugins. On Fri, Jul

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
On 2010-07-02 13:56, Julian Reschke wrote: On 02.07.2010 13:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread John Harding
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Lachlan Hunt lachlan.h...@lachy.id.auwrote: On 2010-07-02 13:56, Julian Reschke wrote: On 02.07.2010 13:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Whether playing video requires a plugin is very much an issue for this list, I think. What Henri explained -- not having

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Lachlan Hunt lachlan.h...@lachy.id.au wrote: On 2010-07-02 13:56, Julian Reschke wrote: On 02.07.2010 13:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Well this isnt really a list where we

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread John Harding
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com wrote: As several people pointed out (and which I tried to get at in my post), this is really an ecosystem issue rather than a change needed in the spec or in browsers. I suspect it's going

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
On 2010-07-02 21:01, John Harding wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Lachlan Huntlachlan.h...@lachy.id.auwrote: Correct. Vendors can theoretically implement any codec or container they like, with any features or limitations they like. MP4 already has various DRM schemes in use... I would

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:09 PM, John Harding wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: As several people pointed out (and which I tried to get at in my post), this is really an ecosystem issue rather than a change needed in the spec or in

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Any site which does that has a giant security hole, since Flash can be used to arbitrarily script the embedding page. It's about as safe as allowing embedding of arbitrary off-site script. If you are aware of sites that allow

[whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-01 Thread John Harding
Glad to see my post spurred some good discussion - I'll try to address topic by topic below, but one of the great points made is that some of the functionality YouTube needs from browsers probably doesn't belong in the HTML5 spec (e.g. streaming, content protection). I'm happy to take those

Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response

2010-07-01 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:59 PM, John Harding jhard...@google.com wrote: Some of the discussion here seems to have conflated application-controlled video delivery with content protection, but in an ideal world, the two are independent.  The basic requirements around content protection that we