html5/spec Overview.html,1.2350,1.2351

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Define that the timeline for videos and audio is linear. (whatwg r3198)

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   the past 15 to 250ms, then the user agent must <a href="#queue-a-task">queue a
   task</a> to <a href="#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> called <code title="event-timeupdate"><a href="#event-timeupdate">timeupdate</a></code> at the element.</p>
 
+  <p>User agents must act as if the timeline of the <a href="#media-resource">media
+  resource</a> increases linearly starting from the <a href="#earliest-possible-position">earliest
+  possible position</a>, even if the underling <a href="#media-data">media
+  data</a> has out-of-order or even overlapping time codes.</p>
+
+  <p class="example">For example, if two clips have been concatenated
+  into one video file, but the video format exposes the original times
+  for the two clips, the video data might expose a timeline that goes,
+  say, 00:15..00:29 and then 00:05..00:38. However, the user agent
+  would not expose those times; it would instead expose the times as
+  00:15..00:29 and 00:29..01:02, as a single video.</p>
+
   </div><p>The <dfn id="attr-media-loop" title="attr-media-loop"><code>loop</code></dfn>
   attribute is a <a href="#boolean-attribute">boolean attribute</a> that, if specified,
   indicates that the <a href="#media-element">media element</a> is to seek back to the

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