RTMW '96: Workshop Goals

• Philipp Hoschka
• W3C - INRIA - Sophia-Antipolis
• October 24-25

Technical Goal: Merge Three Technologies

• Multimedia Document Formats (CD-ROM)
• Audio/Video on Internet
• World Wide Web
• Result: Digital Television over Internet ?

Social Goal: Learn From Each Other

• Who you are
  • 53% industry - 47% research
  • CD-ROM: Macromedia, Apple Quicktime, CWI, ...
  • Audio/Video Internet: RealAudio, IETF editors, ...
  • World Wide Web: W3C
• The major players are in this room !
  
  

Multimedia Document Formats

• Good
  • Applications: teaching/education, entertainement, ...
  • All Media: Text, Images, Audio, Video
  • Hyperlinking
  • Elaborate authoring tools and languages available (CD-ROM)
• Bad
  • No standard
  • Not designed for Internet
  • No content reuse

Audio/Video on Internet

• Good
  • Real-time transport protocols (streaming)
  • IETF Standards available (RTP)
  • Cheap
• Bad
  • Not integrated with other media (text, images)
  • No hyperlinking

World Wide Web

• Good
  • Hyperlinking (URL)
  • Existing content can be combined to new content
  • Drives growth of the Internet
• Bad
  • Not all media supported, only text and images (HTML)
  • No real-time protocol, only "download and display" (HTTP)
    

Workshop Working Rules

• Talks
  • Present Alternatives
  • Get Overview
  • Identify Issues for Breakout Sessions
  • PLEASE interupt the speaker !
  • 15 Minutes talk/15 Minutes questions
• Breakout Sessions
  • Discuss Details
  • Identify Problems
  • Establish Working Groups
  • Required: Chair and minutes

Day 1: Multimedia Document Formats

• Talks
  • Macromedia
  • QuickTime
  • MHEG
  • HyTime
  • CMIF
• Breakout Sessions
  • Declarative Formats or Scripting ?
  • How can Internet be taken into account ?
  • More: To be determined

Day 2: Internet Protocols

• Talks
  • RTP
  • Audio/Video over today's Internet
  • Multicast for the WWW
  • RealAudio/Netscape Protocol Proposal (RTSP)
• Breakout Sessions
  • RTSP
  • TCP or UDP for control traffic ?
  • Reliable Multicast protocol for the Web ?
  • More: To be determined
• Decisions on Future Work