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Timing has come to the Web.

Timingsrc provides a new programming model for precisely timed Web applications, based on the timing object.

For multi-device timing support, simply plug a timing provider into your timing object. Shared Motion by Motion Corporation provides millisecond precise timing globally for Web clients, and is open for non-commercial use.

• Want to provide echoless sync of HTML5 video, globally, in 3 lines of code?
  • Check out the MediaSync demo.
• Want to playback timed data simultaneously on devices across the world?
  • Check out the Sequencer demo.
• Want to make your own multi-device timing demo?
  • Check out the Shared Motion timing provider.

Standardization

The W3C Multi-device Timing Community Group advocates standardization of the timing object. Agreement on a common API for timing resources would enable:

1) temporal interoperability

very different timing sensitive components could easily be integrated into a single consistent presentation. This would allow the classical fruits of composition, i.e. mash-up, integration, code-reuse, flexibility and extensibility to be fully exploited by timing sensitive Web applications.

2) multi-device timing

timing objects integrate with online timing providers allowing multi-device application to exploit temporal composition in the global scope.

3) common programming concepts, tools and practices

timing challenges can be addressed using the same concepts and tools, across separate application domains (e.g. music, broadcast, Web-media). New concepts and tools building on a standard will apply to a much broader community.

4) separation of concerns

online timing providers may focus on the challenges of distributed timing, while application developers may focus on exploiting timing for the purpose of creating great user experiences.

Relation to timing object specification

The timingsrc library serves as a reference implementation for the Timing Object Draft Spec and will be maintained by the W3C Multi-device Timing Community Group.

Authors

Ingar M. Arntzen

• ingar.arntzen@norut.no, ingar.arntzen@motioncorporation.com
• github.com/ingararntzen
• twitter.com/ingararntzen

Njål T. Borch

• njaal.borch@norut.no, njaal.borch@motioncorporation.com
• github.com/snarkdoof
• twitter.com/njaalborch

Acknowledgements

The timingsrc library is developed at Norut Northern Research Institute and funded in part by the EU FP7 MediaScape project. Results are contributed from MediaScape as reference implementation to the W3C Multi-device Timing Community Group.

License

Copyright 2015 Norut Northern Research Institute.

Authors : Ingar Mæhlum Arntzen, Njål Trygve Borch

Timingsrc is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Timingsrc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the timingsrc library. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.