[uf-discuss] Media Metadata, Specifically Video Thumbnails

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello Steve,

Another problematic point is that Flash is NOT a video format.

So another solution would like need to be used for Flash.

Perhaps adding class-video to the <a> or whatever that refers to the
Flash file.  As in...

<a class="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
href="flash.swf"><img class="thumbnail" src="img.png" /></a>


See ya


On 8/16/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> One other things...
>
> The other important point to that is that the <a> element makes use of
> the "type" attribute to show that it points to a video.
>
> (Example MIME types in there that would signify a video are
> "video/mpeg", "video/quicktime", etc.  One problematic video MIME type
> is that of Ogg Theora; which is "application/ogg"... which would
> require you to probe the file to see if it contains video or not....
> and not just sound or something else.)
>
> Software could them check the Content Type (storted in the <a>'s
> "type" attribute) to see if it is one for a video.
>
> NOTE that the <a>'s "type" attribute contains a Content Type (and NOT
> just a MIME TYPE).  So parsing it might take a bit more effort.  Refer
> to  Section 14.17 of RFC 2616 for more information on content types
> -- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17
>
>
> See ya
>
> On 8/16/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Steve,
> >
> > This (and other things relating to it) have been discussed, but
> > nothing has been agreed on yet.
> >
> > It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the <img> element
> > would work for making thumbnails.  As in...
> >
> > <a type="video/mpeg" href="/the/movie"><img class="thumbnail"
> > src="thumbnail.png" /></a>
> >
> >
> > See ya
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Steve Williams <sbw at digg.com> wrote:
> > > I'm new to microformats.  I read Mary Hodder's excellent wiki page
> > > describing the current landscape, but I didn't find a specific
> > > microformat for media metadata.
> > >
> > > Is there a concrete recommendation for microformats to express media
> > > metadata?  If not, would one of you more experienced microformatters
> > > have time to help me whip up a proposal?
> > >
> > > Our specific need:
> > >
> > > We added YouTube and Google video thumbnails to digg.com yesterday.
> > >
> > > http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/video-thumbnails.html
> > >
> > > We used YouTube's public API and an unpublished Google mechanism to
> > > fetch their thumbnails.  YouTube's API is great, but it's a bit
> > > heavyweight for just fetching thumbnails.  Fortunately, there's an
> > > opportunity to influence other sites to adopt a microformat for the
> > > thumbnail and perhaps other metadata.
> > >
> > > Digg invited other video hosting services to contact us about getting
> > > their thumbnails on digg, and a bunch of them have contacted us already.
> > >
> > > They're asking us what they need to do, and I'd like to respond,
> > > "Just mark up the video's permalink page with this here microformat,
> > > and we'll use that to grab the thumbnail."  But I don't know enough
> > > to tell them exactly how to do it.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
>
>
> --
>     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
>     charles @ reptile.ca
>     supercanadian @ gmail.com
>
>     developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

    developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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