Re: [media] change proposals for issue-152

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > Video is harder since it involves assigning a playback region, so I 
> > agree with the reasoning above for video tracks, more or less. But for 
> > audio tracks it seems exposing them is fine. That's what both 
> > Microsoft's proposal and the MediaController proposal do.
> 
> Hmm are you suggesting to explicitly expose an audioTracks IDL
> attribute that has this information? It would be possible...

What I'm proposing is:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#media-resources-with-multiple-media-tracks


> Incidentally, I don't quite buy into the ExclusiveTrackList / 
> MultipleTrackList choice for audio and video tracks in the 
> MediaController API. I think both video and audio tracks should be 
> allowed to have multiple of them active at the same time.

How do you propose that the user agent should render multiple video tracks 
for a <video> element?

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Received on Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:31:07 UTC