[Bug 14851] <video> Add seek() function for non-exact (fast) seeking

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14851

--- Comment #10 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2012-04-30 23:18:57 UTC ---
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote use cases!:
> 
> Seek bars should use "fast", particularly for longer videos and videos
> with keyframes spaced far apart.  Videos encoded to allow quick seeking
> by using frequent keyframes, on the other hand, might use "accurate"
> even for seek bars.
> 
> Chapter seeking should use "accurate".  If a chapter is at 1h45m12.2s, a
> fast seek would end up seeking into the previous scene, or into the   
> middle of a fade-out.
> 
> User-specified seeks, like YouTube's "tm" URL parameter, should be
> "accurate", for the same reason as chapters.
> 
> A "seek ahead by N seconds" button should use "accurate".

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Received on Monday, 30 April 2012 23:19:01 UTC