Video API

Defining an Enhanced API for Video

Abstract

The HTML5 specification introduces the <audio> and <video> media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play and get limited information about audio and video, but gives no way to programatically access or create such media. We present a new extension to this API, which allows web developers to read and write raw audio data.

Authors

• Anna Sobiepanek(@annasob)
• Scott Downe (@corban)
• Daniel Hodgin (@dhhodgin)
• Nick Cammarata

Other Contributors

• Brett Gaylor

Status

This is a work in progress.

API Tutorial

We have developed a proof of concept