Gather external input re: media production on the web

[palemieux]

The M&E IG is considering options for gathering input and interest from stakeholders outside of the M&E IG on the following topic:

What are the current technical challenges, and future opportunities, for professional media applications on the Web, and how should they be addressed by the Web Platform?

Options include hosting a meeting open to external participants.

The objective is to select an option by January 14.

Background

Professional media assets, including audio-visual masters for television and motion pictures, are increasingly being stored in the cloud.

There is a corresponding growing interest in building web applications that allow end-users to manipulate these assets, e.g., quality checking, versioning, timed text authoring, etc.
While the web platform has evolved to support consumer media applications, professional applications require additional capabilities, including precise timing, wider color gamut and high-dynamic range, high-fidelity timed text, etc.

[palemieux]

See the more detailed problem statement at #31

[chrisn]

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[chrisn]

There's a related proposal in WICG: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-offscreenvideo/3952 /cc @gsouquet

[germain-gg]

I'd be happy to give a bit more insights regarding the challenges we are facing when building in-browser video editing tools.
I have reviewed the questions raised in #31 and will try to gather detailed answers internally.

Could definitely join a meeting to feed those back to the M&E IG

[chrisn]

Another interesting WICG proposal is Improved client side video editing.

Currently editing video within the browser is a very complex task as there isn't any straight forward approach to decoding the encoded video file to produce a raw stream that can do common video editing capabilities such as trimming or concatenation [...]

[tidoust]

Status update: @chrisn, @palemieux and I are actively exploring a possible virtual W3C Workshop on Professional Media Production later this year to gather external input on the topic. Feel free to reach out if you're interested and/or if you would like specific topics to be addressed during the workshop.