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