Am Montag, den 08.12.2008, 21:20 -0800 schrieb Martin Atkins: > My concern is that if the only thing linking the various streams > together is the HTML document then the streams are less useful outside > of a web browser context. If there is a separate resource containing the > description of how to assemble the result from multiple resources then > this resource will be useful to non-browser video playback clients. If > an existing format is used then it can be linked to as fallback for > users of downlevel browsers and will hopefully open in a standalone > video player. If the only linking information is in the HTML document > then the best you can do as fallback is link to the video stream, > requiring the user to go find the text streams and load them manually. Funny, I just recently talked with someone about that. He suggested something along a "DNS for subtitles", e.g. having a hash value / UUID embedded inside the stream and looking that up. So for example <urn:caption:dd23d31a1158052b4e68899e1a991df102d82e52/de> could hold German annstations and subtitles for the media file with that hash.
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