At the recent Open Video Conference, I was asked to chair a working group on HTML5 and the

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Unfortunately, the panel was cut short at the conference to only 30 min, so we ended up doing mostly demos of HTML5 video working in different browsers and doing cool things such as working with SVG.

The challenges that we identified and that are still ahead to solve are:

• annotation support: closed captions, subtitles, time-aligned metadata, and their DOM exposure
• track selection: how to select between alternate audio tracks, alternate annotation tracks, based on e.g. language, or accessibility requirements; what would the content negotiation protocol look like
• how to support live streaming
• how to support in-browser a/v capture
• how to support live video communication (skype-style)
• how to support video playlists
• how to support basic video editing functionality
• what would a decent media server for html5 video look like; what capabilities would it have

Here are the slides we made for the working group.

Open Video Conference: HTML and the video tag

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Download PDF: Open Video Conference: HML5 and video Panel

Video: Video of the session at archive.org