TV Control API Community Group
Skip to toolbar
Skip
My W3C Account
TV Control API Community Group
TV Control API Community Group
This group was closed on 2023-03-28.
The convergence of Internet-based IPTV, Video-on-Demand (VoD), Personal Video, IP multicasting video, cellular multicasting video etc. with traditional broadcasting video, satellite video and cable video is emerging on market. The technology gap between web apps and native apps is rapidly narrowing. Thus a web-based application controlling various TV channels with detailed information regarding TV programs is becoming a more and more main stream TV control application for the integrated video service. Furthermore, in many regions TV broadcasters are developing web applications that can overlay their channel in a hybrid broadcast/broadband environment.
Scope of Work
The W3C TV Control API Community Group is to define an API layer that is agnostic of any underlying video sourcing technologies to enable a web-based application to:
- provide EPG information, including the list of TV programs and related information such as channel number, producers, directors, actors, synopsis, rating etc.,
- control and switch the TV sourcing based on channel identifier from EPG data
- interact with TV platform for presenting the TV program appropriately
- interact with TV platform for presenting other supplemental content appropriately
The underlying video sourcing method and technologies, the presentation technology and/or presentation application of TV program and supplemental content are all out of scope.
Operating Guidelines
This group operates under the rules of the Community and Business Group Process. All matters relating to intellectual property are governed by the Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA). All participants within this group agree that their discussions will follow the General Communications Policies.
w3c/tvapi/
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these
conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
Final reports /
licensing info
Date
Name
Commitments
2015-11-30
TV Control API Specification v1.0
Licensing commitments
Drafts /
licensing info
Date
Name
2015-11-19
TV Control API Specification (Draft Candidate)
Call for Final Specification Commitments for TV Control API Specification v1.0
W3C Team
Posted on:
November 30, 2015
On 2015-11-30 The
TV Control API Community Group
published the following specification:
TV Control API Specification v1.0
This is a call for Final Specification Commitments. To provide greater patent protection for this specification,
participants
in the
TV Control API Community Group
are now invited make commitments under the
W3C Community Final Specification Agreement
by completing the
commitment form
Current commitments
are listed on the Web. There is no deadline for making commitments.
If you represent a W3C Member, please contact your Advisory
Committee Representative, who is the person from your organization
authorized to complete the commitment form.
If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-tvapi@w3.org. Learn more about the
TV Control API Community Group
First Draft of TV Control API Specification (Draft Candidate) published by TV Control API Community Group
W3C Team
Posted on:
November 19, 2015
On 2015-11-19 the
TV Control API Community Group
published the first draft of the following specification:
TV Control API Specification (Draft Candidate)
Participants
contribute material to this specification under the
W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-tvapi@w3.org. Learn more about the
TV Control API Community Group
Call for Participation in TV Control API Community Group
W3C Team
Posted on:
April 24, 2014
The
TV Control API Community Group
has been launched:
The convergence of Internet-based IPTV, Video-on-Demand (VoD), Personal Video, IP multicasting video, cellular multicasting video etc. with traditional broadcasting video, satellite video and cable video is emerging on market. The technology gap between web apps and native apps is rapidly narrowing. Thus a web-based application controlling various TV channels with detailed information regarding TV programs is becoming a more and more main stream TV control application for the integrated video service. Furthermore, in many regions TV broadcasters are developing web applications that can overlay their channel in a hybrid broadcast/broadband environment.
Scope of Work
The W3C TV Control API Community Group is to define an API layer that is agnostic of any underlying video sourcing technologies to enable a web-based application to:
– provide EPG information, including the list of TV programs and related information such as channel number, producers, directors, actors, synopsis, rating etc.,
– control and switch the TV sourcing based on channel identifier from EPG data
– interact with TV platform for presenting the TV program appropriately
– interact with TV platform for presenting other supplemental content appropriately
The underlying video sourcing method and technologies, the presentation technology and/or presentation application of TV program and supplemental content are all out of scope.
Operating Guidelines
This group operates under the rules of the Community and Business Group Process. All matters relating to intellectual property are governed by the Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA). All participants within this group agree that their discussions will follow the General Communications Policies.
In order to
join the group
, you will need a
W3C account
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-04-24 by Bin Hu. The following people supported its creation: Bin Hu, Yosuke Funahashi, Louay Bassbouss, Marco Chen, Martin Lasak, Raphaël Troncy, Jean-Charles Verdie, Alexander Futász, Sung Hei Kim, Wook Hyun, Erik Lindström. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of its activities.
The group now has access to W3C-hosted services for email, blog, wikis, irc, tracking tools, and more. Read more about
tools and services available by default and upon request
If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org
Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
Hello world!
Ian Jacobs
Posted on:
April 24, 2014
Welcome to
Community and Business Groups
. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Tools for this group
Learn about available Community Group tools and how to configure a group's site to include links to tools on w3.org or elsewhere.
Mailing List
@ public-tvapi
@ internal-tvapi
Wiki
IRC
GitHub repository
RSS
Pages
News and Resources
Agenda of Teleconference on May 13th
Sample Page
Group closed
This group was closed on 2023-03-28
Archives
November 2015
April 2014
Categories
Announcements
Uncategorized
Footer Navigation
Standards
Groups
Get involved
Resources
News & Events
About W3C
Contact W3C
Contact
Help
Support us
Legal & Policies
Corporation
Systems Status
W3C Updates