Review of Igalia’s Multimedia Activities (2018/H2) – Herostratus’ legacy

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This is the first semiyearly report about Igalia’s activities around multimedia, covering the second half of 2018.Great length of this report was exposed in Phil’s talk surveying mutimedia development in WebKitGTK and WPE:WebKit Media Source Extensions (MSE)MSE is a specification that allows JS to generate media streams for playback for Web browsers that support HTML 5 video and audio.Last semester we upstreamed the support to WebM format in WebKitGTK with the related patches in GStreamer, particularly in qtdemux, matroskademux elements.WebKit Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)EME is a specification for enabling playback of encrypted content in Web bowsers that support HTML 5 video.In a downstream project for WPE WebKit we managed to have almost full test coverage in the YoutubeTV 2018 test suite.We merged our contributions in upstream, WebKit and GStreamer, most of what is legal to publish, for example, making demuxers aware of encrypted content and make them to send protection event…