[video-codec] Storage format (Re: Proposed charter)

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 11/05/2012 12:47 AM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2012, at 18:15 , Timothy B. Terriberry <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> 4. Specification of a storage format for non-interactive (HTTP)
>> streaming or file transfer of the codec. It is envisioned that this
>> document shall be a Proposed Standard document.
> I think I would prefer to see this say something a little more specific like do a storage format appropriate for use with DASH. If folks want to propose something other than DASH, sure, replace DASH with whatever, but my point is, I don't want this WG to be charter to do a DASH equivalent just as one of the sides topics. That is enough work it would need it's own WG.
>
should we say that it needs to have a storage form that can be chunked, 
stored and reconstructed from chunks?

I think that is the requirement to fit into DASH, and also for things 
like the MediaSource API in W3C; with some more constraints on what 
"chunking" means, it's probably also good enough to fit into Matroska 
and Ogg.

(whether chunks are measured in milliseconds or 10s-of-seconds is 
another discussion topic, and more fit for discussing the format draft 
than for discussing the charter.)