[Bug 14422] video element - disable video

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14422

--- Comment #3 from Jan Lindquist <jan.lindquist@ericsson.com> 2011-10-12 09:47:20 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you asking specifically for a way for a *user* to disable the video channel
> while keeping the audio channel running, or some way for an *author* to deliver
> a video and only present the audio channel?
> 

I assume by *author* you mean the application (web) developer. In this case the
*author* shall have the control in order to give the *user* a better user
experience.

> The latter can theoretically be handled by just using the video file in
> <audio>.  The former can probably just be done as a UA-specific UI option; do
> you need the author to have scripted access to the functionality?

The live broadcast is a single encapsulated stream, MPEG2-TS, so there aren't
seperate files that can be loaded and unloaded. The URL for the MPEG2-TS source
it applies for video/audio/subtitles/etc.

The UA may optimize and notice that something is covering the video and release
the video decoder resources but that is unpredicatable. Having an explicit
control then the *author* can have a clear behaviour form the UA across
platforms.

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Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:47:27 UTC