video-info-examples

Video Info

The web has been incorporating multimedia into its pages ever since the release of the Mosaic web browser around 1993. In the late 1990s, video started to appear on the web. Even today (September 2007), it is difficult for a web browser to extract semantic information regarding video recordings from a web page. Information such as the director, title, comments regarding the video, popularity and permanent link location are readily available on the same web page that contains the link to the video file or the video player. The video-info exploratory discussion is an attempt to create a standard method of marking up metadata and information about one or more videos discussed on a web page. This may include short films, animation, television or movies.

The Problem

It is difficult for a browser to extract semantic information about video described on a web page. Metadata such as title, director, screen stills, description, duration, and categories provide relevant context for the video recording.

Having such information marked up can provide a number of benefits to the viewer. If a web browser understands that a particular web page contains a video created by a particular directory, it can produce richer interactions. For example, specific searches may be performed for directors and videos via general search services such as Google and Wikipedia. Specific search services may also be queried such as IMDB, The Internet Archive, or Bitmunk. Additionally, classification by crawlers can become more accurate. If there are 4 television episodes found on a page created by the same directory, and that content consumes a significant portion of the page, it can be assumed that the page is not only about television, but also about a particular director.

The video information need not be associated with a file. Note that video content (Sin City directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez) is different from the video file format (1.5Mbps MPEG-4 with 320Kbps stereo MP3 audio track). The goal of this discussion is to create a Microformat draft for marking up video metadata and information.

Authors

• Manu Sporny, Bitmunk - Digital Bazaar, Inc. (PI, editor)

Contributors

• RodBegbie
• Tantek Çelik
• Mary Hodder
• Joshua Kinberg
• ChrisMessina
• Lisa Rein

Real-World Examples

• Video Sharing Communities Raw Microformalyze Data File

Video Sharing Communitites

Properties

• title - A short textual description used to identify the work among interested parties. This can be the title of a movie, television episode, or short description regarding a video clip.
• sample url - A Sample URL specifies from where an excerpt of the video file may be retrieved.
• rss comments url - An RSS feed to the comments attached to the video.
• report url - A url that is used to report something about the content.
• related content - Video content that is similar to the content that is displayed on the web page.
• purchase url - An Purchase URL specifies from where the full version of an video file may be purchased. The URL MUST point to a page that contains a purchase process.
• published - The Published Date specifies the date that a video file was made available to the public. Examples include: The airing date of a video podcast , the air date of a television show, or the release date of a movie.
• price - The Price specifies the amount of currency that must be exchanged for acquisition of a full specimen of the video recording. Examples include: One Dollar, $2, and £4.
• popularity rating - A display of some kind showing how popular a particular clip is currently.
• permalink url - A url that is a permalink to this video clip.
• number of views - The total number of times the video has been viewed.
• number of downloads - The number of downloads that have been performed for the video.
• number of comments - The total number of comments.
• license - The license that the file is distributed under.
• image summary - An Image Summary specifies an image that should be used to summarize the video recording. Examples include: the still image of some content, an DVD cover image, or a movie poster.
• full download url - An Full Download URL specifies from where the full version of an video file may be retrieved. The URL MUST point to a direct link to a file.
• flash player - A flash player that plays back the video item.
• file size - The file size of the video.
• embed - Action that allows the user to embed the content on their website.
• email video url - URL specifying a mail to link.
• duration - The Duration specifies the length in time of the video recording. Examples include: 104 seconds, 3:23, and 4 minutes.
• description - A description of the video content on the page.
• contributor - A Contributor is any entity that takes part in the creation and distribution of video. Examples include: director, movie company, grips, actors, etc..
• content rating - The content rating is a rating on the maturity of the content. Some ratings include TV-UN, PG-13, R, X, or the like.
• comments - Comments about the video.
• category - The Category specifies the genre or style used to classify the video recording. Examples include: action, suspense, horror, clip, funny, or documentary.
• bookmark - Add the video on the website to your bookmarked videos.

Examples

• Bitmunk
  • Properties: title, image summary, published, category, contributor, description, duration, full download url, purchase url, license, price

• Blip.tv
  • Properties: title, comments, image summary, published, category, flash player, popularity rating, description, permalink url, full download url, report url, content rating, rss comments url, license

• YouTube
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, image summary, description, published, contributor, flash player, content rating, permalink url, report url, number of views, duration, number of comments

• Mefeedia
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, image summary, description, published, contributor, full download url, number of views, related content, email video url

• Vimeo
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, image summary, description, published, contributor, flash player, related content, email video url

• Daily Motion
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, permalink url, report url, number of views, related content, email video url, duration

• Google Video
  • Properties: title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, report url, number of views, related content, email video url, full download url, duration

• VideoSift
  • Properties: category, title, comments, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, number of views, related content, email video url, rss comments url, number of comments, bookmark

• Footbag Videos
  • Properties: title, full download url, duration

• Break
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, number of views, related content, number of comments, bookmark

• College Humor
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, published, flash player, image summary, permalink url, related content, email video url, number of comments, embed

• Ebaums World
  • Properties: category, title, comments, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, related content, email video url, number of comments, bookmark

• Holy Lemon
  • Properties: title, comments, popularity rating, published, image summary, number of views, related content, number of comments, embed

• Crooks and Liars
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, email video url, number of comments

• Yahoo Video
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, report url, number of views, email video url, duration, bookmark, embed

• MySpace Video
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, report url, number of views, related content, email video url, duration, number of comments, bookmark, embed

• AOL Video Blog
  • Properties: category, title, comments, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, email video url, number of comments, bookmark

• Heavy
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, related content

• iFilm
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, related content, email video url, number of comments, bookmark, purchase url

• Metacafe
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, number of views, email video url, content rating, number of comments, bookmark, sample url

• Atom Films
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, duration, number of comments, bookmark, embed

• Veoh
  • Properties: category, title, comments, popularity rating, description, published, contributor, flash player, image summary, permalink url, number of views, related content, email video url, full download url, number of comments, file size, bookmark, embed

• Revver
  • Properties:

Analysis

• title: 95.65%
• comments: 86.96%
• image summary: 86.96%
• published: 86.96%
• category: 82.61%
• contributor: 78.26%
• description: 78.26%
• flash player: 78.26%
• popularity rating: 73.91%
• number of views: 69.57%
• email video url: 60.87%
• related content: 56.52%
• number of comments: 56.52%
• permalink url: 52.17%
• bookmark: 43.48%
• duration: 34.78%
• full download url: 26.09%
• report url: 26.09%
• embed: 26.09%
• content rating: 13.04%
• rss comments url: 8.70%
• purchase url: 8.70%
• license: 8.70%
• file size: 4.35%
• sample url: 4.35%
• price: 4.35%

Video Sites Needing Analysis

• Sclipo - http://sclipo.com/video/how-to-make-pesto-its-so-easy_2

Existing Practices

Listed below is an overview of existing patterns and practices found in the wild for audio information and metadata.

Other schema

• MPEG-4 - includes list of field names, for example "Genre", "Track number", "Disk number".

• TV-Anytime - provides an extensive XML schema for describing Audio/Video content based on the MPEG-7 standard.

Other attempts to solve The Problem

• media-info-examples - Attempted to find an uber-microformat for describing media. Turned out to be too large of a task, thus the problem was split into attempting to create microformats for audio, video and images.