[Bug 10723] <video> Support stopping at the time given by a media resource's fragment identifier

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10723

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
  Status Whiteboard|                            |comment 12 describes the
                   |                            |specific problem that this
                   |                            |bug concerns

--- Comment #17 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-05-09 22:10:13 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> 
> 1.
> For example this site:
> http://eopas.rnld.unimelb.edu.au/transcripts/48#t=23.0,28.62
> (you will have to accept the cookie to get in and then reload that url)
> 
> This site publishes ethnographic audio & video recordings and allows jumping
> directly into segments of the content by start/end time. This is not only used
> for playback and research, but also for quoting when publishing research.

I don't think it makes sense to change the URL each time here. The page has a
long audio file with a set of segments that you can jump to. That makes sense,
and works fine. If you want a clean pause point, then I would argue the best
solution is to create a text track with a cue for each segment, with
pauseOnExit set to true.


> 2.
> Also this site:
> http://metavid.org/w/index.php?title=Stream:senate_proceeding_02-04-11/0:00:25/0:01:45&tl=1

This again seems to just be one media file with jumping to different segments.
You wouldn't want to replace the URL on the fly, that would trigger a file
reload each time.


> 3.
> Then of course there's the whole use case collection in the requirements doc,
> e.g.
> - search result:
> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-reqs/#scenario1.1

That's supported (jump to relevant point); you wouldn't want to stop playing
after the 1 second of playback that contained the search term!


> - pagination:
> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-reqs/#scenario2.1

That use case doesn't make any sense. Why would you require that someone do
something at the end of the 20 minutes to see more?


> - play bookmark fragments:
> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-reqs/#scenario2.2

Providing media fragment end support in the src="" attribute wouldn't fix this.


> - fragment mashup:
> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-reqs/#scenario3.3

If he uses SMIL, it works already, no need for a change to HTML.


(In reply to comment #16)
> I could add VideoSurf

I can't figure out a way to get this to stop before the end of the video. The
example URL you give just plays a YouTube clip from a point to the end.


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: There are ot sufficiently compelling use cases for supporting
explicit stop points at the URL level in the src="" attribute of media
elements.

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Received on Monday, 9 May 2011 22:10:17 UTC