Topics of Interest

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  • Codecs

Position Statements

Michael Dale:

  • Kaltura
  • Works on: Player infrastructure: delivery ( DASH, HLS ) , accessibility ( Captions, WebVTT?, WAI-ARIA ) , security ( EME, multi-drm ), Advertising ( VMAP, VPAID, VAST )
  • Challenges: Cross Android device consistent playback OS libraries / testing
    • DRM fragmentation
    • Accessibility: Consistent keyboard shortcuts among players?
    • Low[er] latency live streaming, DVR.

Silvia Pfeiffer:

  • WebVTT
  • WebRTC

Phil Cluff:

Scott Kellicker

  • Wowza
  • I work on: Wowza Streaming Engine and on player technology
  • Some current challenges/interests
    • Stream delivery of image based captions (e.g. DVB)
    • VAST/VPAID
    • Live Server side ad insertion-- need a common server-player protocol for beaconing
    • MSE/EME

Loretta Guarino Reid

  • Google, YouTube?:
  • WebVTT
  • Video accessibility

Renganathan Ramamoorthy Works on

* Google, Chrome
* Web Media Stacks
* Web video playback
* Web media user experience

Matt Wolenetz

  • Google, Chrome, Software Engineer
  • Works on
    • MSE implementation
    • MSE specification
  • Interested in
    • Web media developer and user experience
    • Closing gaps in MSE and HTML5 like
      • Improved, standardized MediaError granularity
      • Better capability discovery APIs
      • Frame-accurate midstream config changes and track switching

Rob Walch

  • JW Player, Player Engineer
  • Works on:
    • DASH with shaka
    • VMAP, VAST, VPAID(2), IMA
  • Interested in
    • HLS (pantos 13+) with MSE/EME
    • Test automation and integration across browsers and devices

Eric Boyd

  • JW Player, Player Product Manager
  • Works on:
    • Building out streaming support in player (HLS, DASH)
    • Supporting W3C? video standards - WebVTT?, accessibility.
    • Supporting and contributing to IAB ad standards - VAST 4.0, VPAID 2.x
    • Player interface best practices and customizations
  • Interested in/challenges:
    • Standardization for server side ad stitching of adaptive ad creatives
    • DRM fragmentation
    • cross device testing
    • Casting standardization within all browsers