I reckon part of the cause of that is that many implementations of embedded metadata were done many years before video took off on the net. So there are cobwebs all over the place, no buzz, no hoards of would-be web 2 billionaries creating new versions of the tools, and largely no recognition by the original implementers (eg Apple with quicktime) that they could dig up these slumbering efforts and merge them with the new generation of net video & syndication & smil and whatever.
It wouldnt be easy, theres a bit too much overlap, and things arent joined up enough. Its a pain for the user to enter the metadata into the media with the poor GUI things like quicktime give to do it. Then no site/software bothers reading this embedded information, or your video gets transcoded into another format and its lost. SMIL could be used and could be embedded in a mov, but then pure mp4 is mor compatible with a range of devices. And quicktime supports SMIL 1 and real player on my phone supports SMIL 2. Mess, mess, mess. So I gave up on that sort of thing, and look to flash to provide a glossy wrapper that delivers the results that would ideally be possible using 1 technology & embedded metadata, but in reality are coming from all sorts of different sources and are mashed together nicely. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, joshpaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, metadata is key. There are already hooks available, it just seems that > the vast majority of people aren't using them. In other words, the major > video containers provide methods to embed metadata, so that it travels with > the file itself. > > Maybe this is something the video vertigo team would be willing to tackle? ( > i.e. key/value pairs) > > On 4/15/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > I think this is probably one of the most important examples of where > > video is headed: the containment of all information in the video > > container. Containing descriptive text, links, comments, etc. Video > > travels outside the website to mobile devices, internet TVs, etc. It > > needs to contain all it's information along the way and this feature > > shows this capability. > > > > -- Enric > > -======- > > http://cirne.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > joshpaul > > o: 818-237-5200 > c: 818-667-0900 > w: joshpaul.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
