Navigable Temporal Media

Video is usually addressed by file, URL, frame number, or timestamp. Those coordinates are useful for playback but weak for persistent meaning. A scene can move during an edit. An object can appear across shots. A generated clip can be replaced while preserving narrative role. A branch can diverge from one event and later merge. A timestamp says where bytes occur in one representation; it does not necessarily identify the enduring scene, event, object, or state.

Content-addressable video in the Glyphd program is a layered temporal identity system. Exact media segments retain cryptographic identities. Logical temporal objects—scene, shot, event, actor, prop, state, beat, branch—receive stable IDs and lineage. Representations, edits, generations, proxies, and renders remain distinct. A temporal address can resolve from semantic object to the exact source intervals that currently support it.

The system is not a replacement for codecs. It composes exact media storage, temporal graphs, branch-aware provenance, FOVEA-style multiscale navigation, and fold/2 representation routes. The goal is video that can be cited, revised, regenerated, navigated, and reasoned over without reducing all continuity to one mutable timeline.

Current evidence state

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Publication

• Full paper: /papers/p11-content-addressable-video
• Claim ledger: content/papers/p11-content-addressable-video/claim-ledger.json
• Source manifest: content/papers/p11-content-addressable-video/source-manifest.json
• Diagrams: 4
• Approximate body length: 1,689 words

Demonstrations

• d08-temporal-atlas-video-address-map

Benchmarks

• b02-fold2-codec-laboratory

Public boundary

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