[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Lou Burnard]

On 18/12/12 19:50, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> On 18/12/2012 19:41, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Do remember that if I meet
>>    	<media target="foo.mp4"/>
>> and
>> 	<media target="foo.tiff"/>
>> I really really really don't want to work out that I should use <video> for one, and <img>
>> for the other, by looking at file suffixes. Either let's have <video> and <audio>,
>> or mandate mime types.
>>
>> I suspect actually that I could decide to pull the audio from a video file
>> using HTML <audio>, so thats another reason not to use <media>, because
>> it is not precise enough  - what aspect of the media did the author include?
> I'd actually prefer to have something generic like <media> (of which
> <graphic> is a specialization, and possible audio and video too, if you
> really want) and both mandate @mimetype and something like @medium if
> you want to be able to pull audio only from a video file (or a still
> frame from a multimedia file) or something. I'm sure there are media
> that don't easily fit into one of graphic, video, audio that we might
> want to include in here as well (QTVR; Powerpoint; interactive maps;
> embedded app; holographic projector) so let's be as generic and agnostic
> as possible.
>

I agree with GB here. We do already have  @mimetype after all and we 
could make it mandatory on <media>

Or we could just add <audio> and <video> and have this argument all over 
again when someone invents smellovision.


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