* Improve quality assurance processes
  * Mechanism to inform users about API changes
  * Make libavformat API more appropriate to users

• Jack/gstreamer
  • Add JACK transport sync gstreamer pipeline.

  * Raise the release issue with the FFmpeg? community

1. FFmpeg challenges

• FFmpeg?:
  • Raise the release issue with the FFpeg? community

1. OpenMAX challenges

• Xiph OpenMAX IL components:
  • Choose an OpenMAX IL framework
  • Implement generic Ogg mux/demux components (instead of single Ogg Vorbis component)
  • Implement IL components for each codec (Theora, Dirac, Speex, CELT, FLAC)
  • Implement GStreamer OpenMAX plugins for each codec

  * Remove the pain from audio/video conversion (colorspace, channels, etc..)

  * Better Buffering with clips oggz_seek read ahead to give firefox duration and bufferinfo

  * Temporal URIs?: continue involvement with W3C? Timed Fragment group

duration and bufferinfo

  * gst-launch-0.10 should be smarter

  * Temporal URIs? - continued involvement with w3c timed fragment group

  * OpenMediaNow is the right container for this effort

The following short-term goals were agreed on:

• Authoring Tools:
  • Identify things that people do in professional production workflows, which parts are covered with open formats, which aren't
  • Also identify little processes that can be done in Ogg and create little videos, e.g. for Floss Manuals
  • Make Web video editing software also export Ogg Theora files, e.g. using pitivi
• Web Video Server:
  • We are deprecating mod_annodex in favor of oggz_chop in the long run
  • Need to focus on and improve seeking oggz_chop
  • Better Buffering with clips oggz_seek read ahead to give firefox

duration and buffer info

  * Temporal URIs?: continued involvement with w3c timed fragment group

• Timed Text:
  • Need support both for in-line and out-of-band time-aligned text and accessibility ata
  • Need example files for all use cases
  • Need to specify ways of rendering each of these
  • Implementations of OggText?, OggSRT?, and itext
• FFMpeg:
  • Raise the release issue with the FFMpeg community
  • Moving toward regular releases and testing
  • API stability is an issue
  • Mux / Demux integration work
• GStreamer:
  • Make more convenience/high-level methods and API
  • Remove the pain from audio/video conversion (colorspace, channels,

etc..)

  * gst-launch-0.10 should be smarter

• Dirac:
  • Add Dirac support to Firefox through liboggplay
  • Add Dirac support to firefogg
  • Maybe integrate ffmpeg2theora and ffmpeg2dirac
  • Maybe create a libfisheye with Theora and Dirac similar to libfishsound, which will make integrations easier
• Jack:
  • Add gstreamer pipeline for Jack

The following long-term goals were agreed on:

• Eventually, Ogg needs to become a file format that is too big to ignore
• Need unique time-aligned text language, e.g. TDHT and OggTDHT?
• Need specification for dynamic content selection and adaptation of video on the Web

Community Goals

The FOMS participants discussed key issues that open media systems are facing in the current environment:

1. Patent and legal issues around codecs
2. Ogg in Firefox: liboggplay
3. Authoring tools for open media codecs
4. Server Technology for open media
5. Time-aligned text and accessibility challenges
6. FFMpeg challenges
7. GStreamer challenges
8. Dirac challenges
9. Jack challenges

The following short-term goals were agreed on:

• Patents:
  • OpenMediaNow? is the right container for this effort
  • Harass Mozilla, Google, Xiph, On2, BBC (and anyone else) to release any existing research and documentation they have
  • Look for and document expired patents in this area
  • Look for people who will put their names to this project
  • Get 10k$ for Groklaw, to get started
  • Get 50k$ mid-term to pay for work-time put into it
• Liboggplay:
  • We are not backporting/maintaining the liboggplay plugin for firefox 2.x
  • Need to focus on and improve seeking oggz_chop
  • Liboggplay needs Dirac support (get an experimental firefox build)
  • Better buffering with clips oggz_seek read ahead to give firefox duration and buffer info

The following long-term goals were agreed on:

• Convince Open Source developers that publicly documenting stuff is a good anti-patent strategy.
• In Liboggplay and in other Ogg tools, chaining support and playlists should be dealt with as basically the same
• Move Liboggplay from RGB to YUV rendering.. because there is hardware support for YUV