- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:22:50 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Pierre-Olivier Latour <pol@apple.com>
- Cc: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote: > > Using the playback rate is not really a "clean" way to do FF: this is > not very efficient and the audio is going to be horrible unless you > temporarily mute (or the UA does it for you). Instead, you should have > the playback temporarily paused and the playhead jump by X ms every Y ms > as long as FF is active: this is the common way to do FF in digital > media world (i.e. not tape based). Your DVD player likely does that, so > does NetFlix streaming, etc... > > Playback rate is more to do slow-motion or accelerated playback, jog > shuttle control, etc... > > Considering the above I still highly recommend we remove > "defaultPlaybackRate" as it's no the right solution no matter what, and > find a clean way to implement true FF playback DVD style which is 2x, > 4x, etc... (typically not 1.76x), has no audio, and skips frames. This > certainly sounds like an important feature. So how should fast forward and rewind look like in the API? I'm happy to use another solution if there's a better one; my understanding was that the current model was based on Apple's proposal. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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