W3C

Media Fragments Working Group Teleconference

06 Apr 2011

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Yves, Davy, Yves, Raphael, Jack
Regrets
Erik, Silvia, Thomas
Chair
Raphael
Scribe
raphael

Contents


<trackbot> Date: 06 April 2011

<scribe> Scribe: raphael

<scribe> Scribenick: raphael

1. Admin

PROPOSED to accept the minutes of the last week telecon: http://www.w3.org/2011/03/23-mediafrag-minutes.html

<foolip> +1

+1

<davy> +1

minutes accepted

<Yves> +1

close ACTION-215

<trackbot> ACTION-215 Poke people and encourage them to join the telecons closed

2. HTML5 Bugs

ACTION-213?

<trackbot> ACTION-213 -- Silvia Pfeiffer to submit the proposed list of bugs to HTML5 -- due 2011-03-23 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/tracker/actions/213

close ACTIOn-213

<trackbot> ACTION-213 Submit the proposed list of bugs to HTML5 closed

4 bugs now in the tracker

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10723

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12425

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12426

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12427

<foolip> not really

<foolip> (sorry, I'm muted)

<foolip> I've replied

<foolip> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12426

3. TEST CASES

UA test cases: http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases.html

Server test cases: http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/server-test-cases.html

Jack: test cases are made for testing the spec and not for particular implementations

Philip: what does it mean? test cases are made for implementations

Jack: no, because test cases are made for making sure the wording of the spec can at least be interpreted the same way by 2 different people

Davy: I also think we should not battle for this, we mean roughly the same thing

<Yves> well, it's those corner cases that are important, testing the spec by implementing is indeed to see if people got the same reading, but also if the coverage of the issue raised by implementation is good enough in the spec

Davy: let's start for the UA test cases

URI: http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases.html
... we have 60 Test Cases

Davy: I will go over the list of TC, and you should shout if you disagree

<davy> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0001-UA

<foolip> npttimedef = [ deftimeformat ":"] ( npttime [ "," npttime ] ) / ( "," npttime )

<foolip> http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/#naming-time

TC1 is wrong ... syntax is invalid

scribe: it should be equivalent to TC27
... but we should test it

<davy> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0002-UA

Philip: I also disagree on this one ... I think it should be an error

Jack: no, since the intervals are half-open

Philip: it means that it will be a still image?

Jack: no, it means TC2 and TC3 are equivalent
... start of the interval is inclusive, and end of the interval is exclusive

<Yves> TC2 with start=end mean display this point in time (one picture in a video?)

Should we enforce e>s

Philip: it is also reasonable to have e=s

Jack: I think I would prefer half-open intervals

Raphael: but Jack, is [3,3) valid?

Philip: I think it should be considered as an invalid range
... so the whole resource should be requested
... the UA has detected with its logic that this is an invalid range

Davy: instead of requesting the whole resource, we could just request the include-setup

Philip: this is the general problem of what to do with invalid range
... again similar to TC27

Raphael: Philip and Davy prefer to request the whole resource
... Silvia will perhaps prefer to request only the setup data
... Jack does not care, Yves has a slight preference to display a still image but just want we specify what should it be

Philip: I think we should just ignore invalid ranges to simplify implementations

<jackjansen> I don't care, but I agree with Yves that we should specify it.

Raphael: TC2, TC3, TC27 (and perhaps other TC) will request the entire resource ... except if Silvia strongly disagree

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0003-UA

<scribe> done

<davy_> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0004-UA

<davy_> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0008-UA

<davy_> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0013-UA

<Yves> you can't know in advance that you are requesting the whole resource, right?

<foolip> Range: bytes=x-y

Davy: I can add a 4th option with a Range request expressed in bytes

Philip: we should not specify all the possible ways, but just make sure we can request byte ranges request for TC4

Raphael: for TC4, add the possibility to issue a Range request expressed in bytes

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases#TC0005-UA

Philip: the byte ranges could be different
... should we just write x-y ?

Jack: I'm concerned about readability of the table
... so we could add at the top this is just possible outcomes
... for the byte ranges requests (depending on how UA caches things anyway)

Philip: we should also add on the top of the table that we could have a number of range requests (not a single one)

Davy: the column 4 meant that either the UA has knowledge about the media or it has not ... it does say how he got this information

Jack: will this column 4 be used for automatic testing ?
... if yes, then Philip's implementation will fail on all test cases

Davy: we just ignore the first request of Philip's implementation
... the include-setup one
... is it important that we log/check the HTTP request?
... is it important how the UA get the MF visualization right?

Philip: checking the HTTP implementation is secondary, we absolutely need to test the playback behavior

<Yves> main thing is defining the semantic of the #frag, then the http interaction is optional

Raphael: my UA download the entire resource and just seek to the start of the fragment on client side, and stop playing at the end of the fragment ... is this a conforming implementation ?

Yves: we need to check the playback in the UA, not the network

Jack: servers might not be MF compliant and the UA should not be penalized

Raphael: it's noon, thanks all for attending
... are you all here next week

ALL: yes

4. AOB

Next week, we keep discussing all TC, that will include the changes of Davy!

Round of applause for his work

Meeting adjourned

Summary of Action Items

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