CTA WAVE Extended Resources

Introduction

This page collects the CTA WAVE extended resources. Some of the documents are public, others are only accessible for CTA WAVE members. The page is separated into different task force and activities:

• Content Specification Task Force
• Device Playback Task Force
• HTML5 API Task Force
• HLS-DASH Interop Task Force
• Common Media Header Data Activity
• CMAF Byte Stream Format Activity

Content Specification Task Force

Published Specifications

• WAVE Content Specification, 2018 Edition, April 2018
• WAVE Content Specification, 2018 Edition, Amendment 1, December 2018
• WAVE Content Specification, 2019 Edition, December 2019

Supporting Documents

• Content Specification Task Force Media Profile Wiki
• Content Specification Task Force Issues
• DASH-IF Conformance Software Issues
• Media Profile Approval Process
• CMAF Testable Assertions, Nomor annotated CMAF FDIS
• CMAF Technologies under Consideration (TuC)
• CMAF 2nd Edition FDIS (w18636)
• DASH Profile for CMAF, ISO/IEC 23009-1:2020/Draft DAM1
• DASH-IF “Advanced Ad Insertion in DASH”
• Draft of proposed revision of SCTE 215-1-1

Internal Drafts

• WAVE Content Specification, 2018 Edition, Amendment 1, final Word version
• WAVE Content Specification, 2019 Edition, 11-07-2019 - TWG Review Draft, Correction
• WAVE Content Specification, CTA-5001-B Content Specification (2019 Edition) – Final Word Version
• WAVE DASH-HLS Interop Specification – 2020 Edition, Skeleton Draft

Device Playback Task Force

Published Specifications

• Device Playback Capabilities Specification (CTA-5003), Published December 2018 (pdf, public)
• Device Playback Capabilities Specification (CTA-5003), Published December 2018 (Word, internal)

Specification Development

• Draft Specification version 2
• Github for comments against specification v2
• Draft Update: Content Options and Playback for AVC/AAC
• Media Capabilities
  • Draft Specification Update: Media Capabilities
  • Media Capabilities Mapping
  • Media Capabilities Issue Tracker

Test Resources

• Test Runner
  • Repo for the DPCTF Test Runner
  • Repo for DPCTF Tests. We prefer to keep the Tests separated from Test Runner
  • Repo for Docker deployment
• Device Observation Framework
  • Repo for DPCTF Observation Framework
• Test and Mezzanine Content
  • Test Content Public Website
  • Github for Test Content Issues
  • Github for Mezzanine
  • Github for Test Content Generation

HTML5 API Task Force

Published Specifications

• Web Media API Snapshot 2017 (CTA-5000) December 2017 (pdf, public)
• Web Media API Snapshot 2018 (CTA-5000-A) December 2018 (pdf, public)
• Web Media API Snapshot 2019 (CTA-5000-B) December 2019 (pdf, public)
• Web Media Application Developer Guidelines (CTA-5002) Published December 2018 (pdf, public)

Specification Development

• Web Media API Snapshot 2020 (Online Draft)
• Github for comments against Web Media API Snapshot 2020

Test Resources

• Web Media API Snapshot 2018 Test Suite
  • Online Hosted Version - Free for Public Access (unblock port 8050)
  • Open Source version (for porting to e.g., smart TVs)

HLS-DASH Interop Task Force

Published Specifications

Specification Development

• ISO/IEC 23009-1
  • 4th Edition (Editor’s Versions)
  • ISO/IEC 23009-1 4th edition DAM 1 CMAF support, events processing model and other extensions

Test Resources

Common Media Header Data Activity

Published Specifications

Still being developed. Publication expected Q3 - 2020

Specification Development

• Online Google doc for spec development
• Github issues

Test Resources

None yet available

CMAF Byte Stream Format Activity

W3C Specifications

• W3C Media Source Extensions
• ISO-based Media File Format (ISOBMFF) Byte Stream Format

Specification Development

• Public Review (pdf)
• Draft CR (doc)
• Issues Tracker