ginger's thoughts

Today, I was invited to give a talk at my old workplace CSIRO about the HTML5 media elements and accessibility.

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At the recent FOMS/LCA in Wellington, New Zealand, we talked a lot about how Ogg could support accessibility.

Recently, I was asked for some help on coding with an HTML5 video element and its events.

I have talked a lot about synchronising multiple tracks of audio and video content recently.

Today was the last day to provide a submission and input to the Australian Government's discussion report on "Access to Electronic Media for the Hearing and Vision Impaired: Approaches for Consideration".

During last week's LCA, Jan Gerber, Michael Dale and I gave a 3 hour tutorial on how to publish HTML5 video in an open format.

Vimeo started last week with a HTML5 beta test.

You probably heard it already: Linux.conf.au is live streaming its video in a Microsoft proprietary format.

I am a very happy camper today!

UPDATE (6th February 2010): YouTube have just reacted to my bug and it seems there are some gData links that are more up-to-date than others.

In the previous post I explained that there is a need to expose the tracks of a time-linear media resource to the user agent (UA).

HTML5 has been criticised for not having a timing model of the media resource in its new media elements.

Last week's TPAC (2009 W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee) meetings were my second time at a TPAC and I found myself becoming highly involved with the progress on accessibility on the HTML5 video element.

If you haven't proposed a presentation yet, got ahead and register yourself for: FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software workshop) at http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2010/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP LCA Multimedia Miniconf at http://www.annodex.org/events/lca20…

Over the years, I have flown a lot - mainly between Sydney and Frankfurt or Sydney and San Francisco.

Cortado is a java applet that provides support for Ogg Theora/Vorbis to Web publishers.

We are slowly approaching the stage where we want to make multi-track video of the following type available and accessible: original video track original audio track dubbed audio tracks in n different languages audio description track in n different langa…

I got a shiny new MacBook Pro on the weekend, yay!

On Wednesday evening I gave a 3 min presentation on video accessibility in HTML5 at the WebJam in Sydney.

Yesterday, I gave a talk on the HTML5 video element at Web Directions South.

I had the great pleasure to be part of the W3C presentations at Web Directions South.

The first specification for how to include captions, subtitles, lyrics, and similar time-aligned text with HTML5 media elements has received a lot of feedback - probably because there are several demos available.

Web accessibility veteran John Foliot of Stanford University and Apple's QuickTime EcoSystem Manager Dave Singer are organising a W3C Workshop/Barcamp on Video Accessibility on the Sunday before the W3C's annual combined technical plenary meeting TPAC.

Just a brief note to let everyone know about a new wikipage I created for my Mozilla work about video accessibility, where I want to track the status and outcomes of my work.

Looking at accessibility for video includes sign language.

As part of my experiments in video accessibility I am also looking at the audio element.

Just a brief note to share that I have updated the video accessibility demo at http://www.annodex.net/~silvia/itext/elephant_no_skin.html.

In the W3C Media Fragment Working Group (MFWG) we have had long discussions about the use of the URI query ("?")

In an effort to give a demo of some of the W3C Media Fragment WG specification capabilities, I implemented a HTML5 page with a video element that reacts to fragment offset changes to the URL bar and the <video> element.

A few months back, Thomas reported on a cool flumotion experiment that he hacked together which allows jumping back in time on a live video stream.

Since working on video accessibility, I have felt rather inadequate not knowing exactly how general Web accessibility works, in particular ARIA.

For many years now I have been progressing a deeper view of video on the Web than just as a binary blob.

This is not a technical post, but it made my day, so I thought I should share it.

In the last week, I have received many emails replying to my request for feedback on the video accessibility demo.

My accessibility work for Mozilla is showing first results.

It's already old news, but I am really excited about having started a new part-time contract with Mozilla to continue pushing the HTML5 video and audio elements towards accessibility.

Now that Firefox 3.5 is released with native HTML5 <video> tag support, it seems that there is a new javascript library every day that provides fallback mechanisms for older browsers or those that do not support Ogg Theora.

At the recent Open Video Conference, I was asked to chair a working group on HTML5 and the <video> tag.

Beloved Shuttle Box Six weeks ago, on a fatal Saturday, both my washing machine and cute little Mario died in one day.

UPDATE: The best demo I have seen so far of many of DFXP's features is at http://www.w3.org/2009/02/ThisIsCoffee.html.

In the year 2000, while working at CSIRO as a research scientist, I had the idea that video (and audio) should be hyperlinked content on the Web just like any Web page.

On Jun 13th 2009 Chris DiBona of Google claimed on the WhatWG mailing list: "If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet."

I've always thought that the most compelling reason to go with HTML5 Ogg video over Flash are the cool things it enables you to do with video within the webpage.

Yesterday, somebody mentioned that the HTML5 video tag with Ogg Theora/Vorbis can be played back in Safari if you have XiphQT installed (btw: the 0.1.9 release of XiphQT is upcoming).

Michael Dale just posted this to theora-dev.

This past week was amazing, not because of Google Wave, which everybody seems to be talking about now, and not because of Microsoft's launch of the bing search engine, but amazing for the world of open video.

In January this year we had the third Foundations of Open Media software workshop for developers.

Last week, I gave a brief statement on the importance of video as an enabler for broadband applications at the Public Sphere event of Senator Kate Lundy.

After posting only a month ago about the new Thusnelda release, there continues to be good news from the open codec front.