Sometimes I remember that Matroska exists and today I also remembered how it came to existence. Its author proudly admits mixing all the buzzwords of Web 2.0 era like XML, Semantic Web etc etc and coming up with that format. Since we’re in Web 3.0 era we should have something more modern.
That is why I’m calling for a modern multimedia container format to supplant the outdated formats of the old. It should encompass all the features that make the modern Web great:
- binary JSON as the backbone of the format;
- central repository for the downloadable descriptions of the parts of the format (but not codecs themselves! Think of it as of MXF specification if it helps);
- blockchain (as well as clusterchain and framechain);
- metaverse integration;
- decentralised storage (so that the container may refer to some data in the cloud as well as on the local disk; even MOV could do something like this);
- and of course AI!
Some of you may ask where AI can be applied in this scenario. The answer is obvious—transforming input data for better compression (let alone generating metadata or enabling better integration with other Web 3.0 products). A good model should be able to do the same savings like Matroska did by e.g. shaving off common headers bytes from each frame but without special mapping. An excellent model may generate the content by the embedded description instead of transmitting AV2 video. And of course the central repository will contain the description of models and parameters to be used (in addition to the descriptions of better representation of container parts layout). The possibilities are limitless!
Proposals should be sent to the Alliance for Open Media , I have worse things to deal with.