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Audio/Video conferencing on the Web

May 6, 2011

Yesterday, W3C announced the creation of a new Working Group, the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group (or Web RTC WG)

As defined in its charter, The Web RTC group is to define client-side APIs to enable Real-Time Communications in Web browsers. These APIs should enable building applications that can be run inside a browser, requiring no extra downloads or plugins, that allow communication between parties using audio, video and supplementary real-time communication, without having to use intervening servers (unless needed for firewall traversal, or for providing intermediary services).

In short, the group is to enable audio/video conferencing scenarios directly from within the Web browser. We’re looking forward to seeing this become a reality!

The work got created as a result of exploration discussions at the RTC Web Workshop back in October 2010. It will not prescribe underlying codecs and protocols to be supported by Web browsers but will in close relationship with the IETF Real-Time Communication WEB group to ensure compatibility between the API functions that the W3C group will work on and the Profile that the IETF group will define.

Instructions to join the group are available.

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W3C Issues Report on Web and Television Convergence

April 6, 2011

The Web and television convergence story was the focus of W3C’s Second Web and TV Workshop, which took place in Berlin in February. W3C publishes a report that summarizes the discussion among the 77 organizations that participated, including broadcasters, telecom companies, cable operators, OTT (over the top) companies, content providers, device vendors, software vendors, Web application providers, researchers, governments, and standardization organizations active in the TV space. Convergence priorities identified in the report include:

  • Adaptive streaming over HTTP
  • Home networking and second-screen scenarios
  • The role of metadata and relation to Semantic Web technologies
  • Ensuring that convergent solutions are accessible.
  • Profiling and testing
  • Possible extensions to HTML5 for Television

Read the full press release.

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MPEG-LA under anti-trust scrutiny

March 4, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Justice Department is starting to examine whether MPEG-LA is breaking anti-trust with its call for patents that may be infringed by Google’s VP8 codec.

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Spacewar in HTML5

March 2, 2011

Hello spacewar in HTML5 – what took you so long? Interesting motivation too – HTML5 seen as more future-proof than Java

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Patternsketch – HTML5 and Javascript-based tool for composing tracks

February 19, 2011

Very impressive work from NY musichackdays – patternsketch.

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One day into the Berlin Web and TV workshop

February 8, 2011

photo at the Web and TV workshopThe workshop attracted more than 100 attendees from various industries, including TV broadcasters and service providers, TV and set-top boxes manufacturers, as well as standardization bodies active in TV space. In that respect, the workshop is already a big success.

After a short presentation of the workshop goals, its relationship with the newly created W3C Web and TV Interest Group, the discussion focused on requirements needed for second-screen scenarios, such as when a mobile device is used as a TV remote, or when a potential consumer uses his laptop to browse content associated with the TV show he’s currently watching on his primary TV set. photo at the Web and TV workshop
The need for new APIs and some device discovery mechanism were highlighted during this session.

poster for the Web and TV workshopThe panel on HTTP adaptive streaming showed a convergence of interests towards the MPEG DASH specification as a key enabler for video streaming on broadband connections. There was a long debate on the patent policy under which this specification could eventually be released. Further improvements to HTML5 (additional events, QoS API, trick modes support) were pointed out.

On content protection, the general agreement was that there was no need to standardize a full-blown DRM system. On the contrary, it seems more relevant to agree on a common encryption algorithm that would leave the DRM system as a business decision.

The minutes of the workshop will be available for full details very soon. Meanwhile, please follow the second day of discussions on Twitter feed #w3ctv.

We would like to thank our sponsors Netflix, IPTV Forum Japan and Tomo-Digi for their generous support. Fraunhofer-FOKUS also provides a great venue for fruitful discussions. Many thanks.

Photo credit: Hristo Mitov – Fraunhofer FOKUS
Poster designed by WithYou

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Agenda ready for the Berlin Web and TV workshop

January 26, 2011

The agenda for the 2° edition of the Web and TV W3C workshop is now available.

Several topics will be discussed during these two days meeting:

  • Web&TV: Use Cases and TechnologiesWeb and TV
  • Second-Screen Scenarios
  • HTTP Adaptative Streaming
  • Content Protection
  • Metadata / Semantic Web
  • HTML5 and TV
  • Accessibility
  • Profiling / Testing

The workshop will be held in Berlin (Germany), on 8-9 February 2011.

Don’t forget about the dedicated sponsorship program, the deadline is 1 February.

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HTML5 logo

January 20, 2011

W3C unveils an HTML5 logo. W3C encourages early adopters to use HTML5 and to provide feedback to the W3C HTML Working Group as part of the standardization process.

The logo home page includes a badge builder (which generates code for displaying the logo), a gallery of sites using the logo, instructions for getting free stickers, and more.  The logo is available under a permissive licence (Creative Commons 3.0 By). Download the logo and the badges here. Read the official post from W3C’s blog and the FAQ for more information.

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Get ready for HTML5 Graphics: Start the new year learning SVG – Early bird rate expiring soon!!

December 31, 2010

W3C is delighted to announce its latest online training course: Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) which will start on Jan 10 2011.

SVG is getting increasingly important for Web designers given that

  • SVG now directly supported in HTML5
  • IE 9 will join all other major browsers in supporting the format.

This is the second time we run this course – here are some impressive examples of SVG applications that students in the first course were able to accomplish in their “final exam” after only five weeks of study:

We received excellent feedback on the first course – some examples of what participants in the previous course had to say:

  • “SVG is the future of graphics for web development. Anyone remotely interested in web dev needs to start learning it.”
  • “The format suits someone who may be working during the day, but has some time in the evenings to do some study”
  • “I really got infected by SVG! It’s an important part of the web-future (when there will be full cross-browser-support of SVG/SMIL) I gained knowledge and abilities that really impressed me.”
  • “You are at home; but not alone. There is feed-back and it is possible to get help. The course material and the assignments are high level, so later on when you are going to use it in your work, you have a god reference material.”
  • “A well taught course that thanks to the discussion group enables you to connect with some amazing individuals and allow you to expand your knowledge of the subject area well beyound whats in the course material itself.”

Full details on the content, the timing, who it’s for and more are available.

Early bird registration is available until January Jan 4 2011 at just €125 (after that, the cost will be €165).

Hope you can join us!

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Augmented Reality Workshop: Paper Proceedings Available

December 28, 2010

Are you interested in a single document including the W3C Augmented Reality workshop report, copies of all papers presented at the Workshop as well as most of the presentation slides?

Then you should check out the Workshop proceedings that have just been published in a handy, ready-to-print PDF file!

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