Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

It's definitely worth it to put a link to our work in that thread. AT THE veey least it shouldnget us some reviewers of shag we've editten down on frame accurate addressing...

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On Jan 8, 2011, at 9:30, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought this would be an interesting discussion for us to follow.
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
> 
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>> From: Rob Coenen <coenen.rob@gmail.com>
>> Date: 7 January 2011 5:22:14 PM GMT+01:00
>> To: whatwg@whatwg.org
>> Subject: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE
>> 
> 
>> Hello list,
>> 
>> are there any plans on adding frame accuracy and/or SMPTE support to HTML5
>> video?
>> 
>> As far as I know it's currently impossible to play HTML5 video
>> frame-by-frame, or seek to a SMPTE compliant (frame accurate) time-code.
>> The nearest seek seems to be precise to roughly 1-second (or nearest
>> keyframe perhaps, can't tell).
>> 
>> Flash seems to be the only solution that I'm aware of that can access video
>> on a frame-by-frame basis (even though you the Flash Media Server to make it
>> work).
>> Seeking to a SMPTE time-code is completely impossible with any solution I
>> have looked at.
>> 
>> Very interested to learn what the community POV is, and why it isn't already
>> implemented.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Rob