- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:27:09 +1100
- To: "Dave Singer" <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "Media Fragment" <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Dave Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > At 12:07 +1100 7/10/08, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> OK, so the tables are in the MOV file and therefore not available to >> the client without talking to the server. Therefore, you need to do at >> least one communication between client and server to get the >> information how to map time to byte-ranges. That is exactly the >> process I talked about earlier: the server has to tell the client. > > Yes, but it's just a response to a regular byte-range request (or two). I see. In that case, you can do the URI fragment address conversion to a byte-range request fully on the UA side. That's a nice special case to consider. It won't work with all media resources though. Thanks for explaining! Glad I understood how it works with MOV and MP4. Cheers, Silvia.
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