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• Upcoming conferences / workshops

  10 septembre 2010, par silvia
  Lots is happening in open source multimedia land in the next few months. Check out these cool upcoming conferences / workshops / miniconfs… September 29th and 30th, New York Open Subtitles Design Summit October 1st and 2nd, New York Open Video Conference October 3rd and 4th, New York Foundations (...)

• WebSRT and HTML5 media accessibility

  9 septembre 2010, par silvia
  On 23rd July, Ian Hickson, the HTML5 editor, posted an update to the WHATWG mailing list introducing the first draft of a platform for accessibility for the HTML5 <video> element. The platform provides for captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, chapter markers and similar (...)

• “HTML5 Audio And Video Accessibility, Internationalisation And Usability” talk at Mozilla Summit

  13 juillet 2010, par silvia
  For 2 months now, I have been quietly working along on a new Mozilla contract that I received to continue working on HTML5 media accessibility. Thanks Mozilla! Lots has been happening – the W3C HTML5 accessibility task force published a requirements document, the Media Text Associations proposal (...)

• Media Fragment URI Specification in Last Call WD

  9 juillet 2010, par silvia
  After two years of effort, the W3C Media Fragment WG has now created a Last Call Working Draft document. This means that the working group is fairly confident that they have addressed all the required issues for media fragment URIs and their implementation on HTTP and is asking for outside (...)

• VP8/WebM : Adobe is the key to open video on the Web

  22 mai 2010, par silvia
  Google have today announced the open sourcing of VP8 and the creation of a new media format WebM. Technical Challenges As I predicted earlier, Google had to match VP8 with an audio codec and a container format – their choice was a subpart of the Matroska format and the Vorbis codec. To complete (...)