Silvia Pfeiffer - Beginning HTML5 Media: Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web

Beginning HTML5 Media

Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web

Silvia Pfeiffer

Tom Green

Beginning HTML5 Media

Copyright 2015 by Silvia Pfeiffer and Tom Green

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To Ben and John, who suffered through countless weekends without my full attention. To the browser developers for giving us these awesome capabilitiesthis is to encourage them to continue work on interoperability for our all advantage!

Silvia

To my students. Never forget: the amount of fun you can have with these technologies should be illegal. Ill see you in jail.

Tom

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About the Authors

Dr. Silvia Pfeiffer has worked on novel media technology for more than 20 years and is an internationally renowned expert in new web video standards. Silvia was an editor of the HTML5 standard and continues to edit the WebVTT specification and several other specification documents at the W3C. Silvia has in the past worked on accessibility at Mozilla and Google and contributed code to the Google Chrome browser. She was a Xiph and open media technologies contributor long before these technologies made it into the Web. In fact, she helped the progress of open web media technology not only through technical contributions but also by making sure the communities would work together productively by organizing the annual Foundations of Open Media Standards and Software Workshop.

Silvia has a PhD in Computer Science in the field of automated audio and video content analysis. During her academic phase, Silvia published more than 50 academic papers, journal articles, and book chapters and has spoken at many international conferences. Since moving out of academics, Silvia has pursued the creation of standards and startups. The latter is currently taking her to the creation of a new company focused around WebRTC (web real-time communications) technology, a new web standard for real-time video, audio, and data conferencing.

Tom Green is a Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Media Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. He has written 12 previous books on media and web technologies, and many articles for numerous magazines and web sites, including About.com, Layers Magazine, video2brain, and Lynda.com. Finally, he has spoken at numerous international industry conferences including FITC, Web Design, Digital Design World, and Adobe Max.