Re: Improving disconnection handling

On 04/11/2013 06:09 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 10 April 2013 18:48, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>>      I don't like users staring at a "frozen" image for five seconds. If I
>> had a way of finding out when the last video frame was received, I would
>> fade out the video immediate after it begins hanging and fade it back in
>> when it reconnects. What do you think?
> I think that you need to work on a precise definition of "begins
> hanging" such that it could be detected.  You might also find that a
> fadeout over such a short lapse is more annoying to your users than
> you think.  There may be a way of getting the time of the last
> rendered update, but keep in mind that the time for the video will
> probably be based on the sender clock, which can drift in relation to
> the local clock.  You really don't want false positives.
>
The spec says that the time of the <video> tag advances during playback.

(See 
http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#mediastreams-as-media-elements 
- item about "currentTime").

Does it advance when the video freezes?