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OSTA Announces MultiPhoto/Video Specification

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pics-on-a-disc dept.

krazyninja writes "The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), and the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), have announced the release of v1.0 MultiPhoto/Video specs. This specifies a standard framework for storing and managing digital image content on CDs/DVDs. Companies such as HP and Roxio are involved in this development. Note that there is a similar spec for audio called MultiAudio, also from OSTA."

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  1. metadata not filesystem by rillian · · Score: 3, Informative

    From a quick look at the spec, this is a metadata format, not a filesystem. It's intended for more than CD/DVD media as well, notably flash filesystems, which are different of technical necessity.

    It seems to be mostly oriented toward labelling, describing and presenting collections of images. For what a first look is worth it doesn't necessarily suck, either. They mention dublin core metadata.

    A nice add on to comments in the jpeg header, anyway.

  2. Not a CD format!! by illtud · · Score: 2, Informative
    Why not just use UDF packet-written CDs? What advantage does this new, properietary, probably DRMed format have over good ol' UDF with a load of .jpeg and .mpeg files?


    You misunderstand. This is a format for the metadata and layout. Metadata such as structural metadata, linking one image to another (say, to describe formally that images 1-100.jpg are a sequence of stills from a video, and that 101-200.jpg are thumbnails of same) or technical metadata about the image creation/capture process (and a whoooole lot more which I won't even start on).

    This stuff is important, complex and probably not for 99% of the Slashdot crowd. We (at a national copyright library) are using METS (Metdata Encoding and Transmission Standard) as metadata on our digital objects, and METS has an extension schema for AV stuff, which seems to be similar to this.

  3. Re:Its just meta data folks... by NastyGnat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Repeatedly all I can find is that this is hardware/OS independent, and that non 'MPV-aware' software/hardware will still play the media because its just an extension system, that it is royalty-free...

    Granted it appears to be non-OS specific, but I did find this in section 10.6.4."Computer Harddisks"

    The user may expect that many different MPV-aware applications should be able to access the same set of albums. This requires a convention for locating a root MPV collection. the following directories are recommended for storing the root MPV collection, in order of preference:
    * /Desktop/My Documents/My Pictures
    * C:/Documents and Settings/users/My Documents/My Pictures
    * C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Applications Data/MPV/user.PVM
    * Breath-first aplhabetical scan of all directories up to three levels below the root directory.

     If that doesn't sound OS oriented, I don't know what does...

    They should get better proofreaders too. Section 11.5 starts with the heading "Finding an Photo/Video Manifest File"

    Last time I checked, "an" was only used before words that started with a vowel or a vowel sound, such as the words Hour, or Image.

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