ISSUE-14 (davy): How to deal with embedded time stamps from Media Fragments Working Group Issue Tracker on 2010-01-28 (public-media-fragment@w3.org from January 2010)

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ISSUE-14 (davy): How to deal with embedded time stamps

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/tracker/issues/14

Raised by: Davy Van Deursen
On product: 

The current spec shortly mentions media with embedded time stamps. However, more information should be provided regarding how to deal with embedded time stamps. Currently, three questions arise:

- is there a different behavior in using NPT vs. SMPTE time addressing and if so, under which circumstances (e.g., are SMPTE time codes embedded in the media resource or not)?

- do we take into account the timing information of the media (usually specified in the underlying container format) when extracting temporal media fragments? For example, suppose a certain track 'a' of a media file ex.mp4 plays from 5s to 10s and from 20s to the end. What will be the result of interpreting ex.mp4#track='a'&t=0,15 ?

- in case of a media fragment Range request, what should be returned in the response header? More specifically, is the instance length optional or mandatory per the Content-Range header syntax?

Further reading:
* initial mail from Werner: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2010Jan/0027.html
* Silvia elaborating on SMPTE time codes: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2010Jan/0059.html
* Raphaël's summary: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2010Jan/0075.html

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