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Consortium W3C, project manager of the web-standards, has published the first draft of the specifications of Media Source Extensions ...

Consortium W3C, project manager of the web-standards, has published the first draft of the specifications of Media Source Extensions, providing a means for local generation of multimedia streams from JavaScript-applications. The new API extends the already accessible interface HTMLMediaElement, which provides methods for playing video and audio using video tags and audio. Support for dynamic creation of content for video and audio tags opens up new opportunities for developers of web-based applications, simplifying the implementation of adaptive streaming and time shifting live-broadcasts.

Objectives Media Source Extensions:

• Support for the construction of multimedia streams regardless of the method of obtaining media data;
• Ability to define your own models buffering and interface, allowing to implement a system such as the substitution of advertising, broadcast time-shifted, redaktirvoanie video, etc.
• Minimizing the need to parse the media stream by JavaScript;
• Enabling browser-cache at every opportunity;
• Providing ready definitions for handling byte streams WebM, ISO Base Media File Format and MPEG-2;
• No need to support specific media formats and codecs.

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