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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. I've been thinking about a scrapbook standard.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    something needs to be..

    My mother, gave my sister, the family foto album.. now I have it, and I'm in the process of digitizing it...

    all of my kids, will have copies (albeit digital) and with video clips, and with audio snippets... and their children (presumably) will, and so on.. how about a standard, that saves these scrapbooks, so they can be merged easily..

    Fictionalized example- I use kodaks 'scraps' program, and give my son a 500 gig optical disk with everything.. he meets and marries in due time a woman who's family chose to use polaroids 'memories' they buy one or the other, and just 'merge' the memories.. they can hand each child a copy issued custom to them.. with added material.. (lables for photos now say great grandparent in stead of grandparent, et'cetera..)

    of course, it has to be open format, something that allows new technologies to add gracefully (a hologram or other 3-d memory)