Re: [payload] [ietf-types] Video media-types insufficient?

Hi,
I think this should be discussed in payload WG
Roni Even

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-types-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-types-bounces@ietf.org]
> On Behalf Of Paul Libbrecht
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:28 AM
> To: IANA Media types
> Subject: [ietf-types] Video media-types insufficient?
> 
> 
> hello dear Media-types' expert,
> 
> the other day, I played with the nifty new video element of HTML5 which
> seems to be fairly well implemented. This element allows a list of
> sources together with their media-type so that the browser can find the
> "video format" that it can play.
> This element is perfectly following the idea of a media-type's
> characterization of an exploitable format.
> 
> However, this characterization is insufficient: the same media-type for
> videos can be encode data in multiple codecs and these are not encoded
> in media-types:
> 
> I met this while using the video/mp4 media-type and realized that our
> default encoding, the mpeg4 codec, did not play in iPad.
> So I used the same video element, with a src of media-type pointing to
> an mp4 file that uses the h264 codec. This one plays on iPad.
> 
> To me, this is a clear failure of the media-type video/mp4: it does not
> express sufficiently the playability on a device.
> 
> Is this something well known?
> Are there maybe media-type parameters that could help?
> Are newer video media-types better on this respect?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Paul
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