[Bug 8731] Consider expanding buffering control for media elements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8731





--- Comment #16 from Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>  2010-02-14 09:35:46 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> The idea of "autobuffer" is it would do whatever the browser thinks is best. If
> we split that into "download everything" and "download minimum needed for
> playthrough", then half the sites will use the wrong one (relative to what
> people want). If we only have the one option, then the user agent or the user
> can decide which to do, which seems to make more sense to me.

So, the question really is: who knows best whether the best choice is to
buffering "everything" or just "playthrough" - is it the author, the browser or
the user? Maybe it is indeed the user.

How does the user get the choice? Would the browser vendor that cares about
this offer such a difference as a browser preference? Or should "stop
buffering" be an option in the video controls? Or the context menu? Is there
something we can recommend?



> The idea of putting "autoplay" into this attribute is that it doesn't really
> make sense to autoplay without autobuffering. The autobuffer attribute is
> basically redundant if you want it to autoplay.

I still think that autoplay is a different dimension to buffering. It would
need to be stated that if autoplay is used, loadhint is automatically set to
autobuffer.


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