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

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

--- Comment #11 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2012-04-30 23:21:36 UTC ---
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Michael Dale wrote:
>
> It seems the needs for a seek bar are different from the api usage of
> setting video.currentTime. As people mention rules of 'least surprise'
> are important. If you set currentTime to 3.453 you expect it to return
> something very close to 3.453 ..
> 
> Why not have a separate api for "seek bars" that just seek to a
> percentage of the video stream. Letting implementations do what's
> fastest and consistent, but without guarantees for a given play time
> being set. This way the different needs are addressed and we don't  
> conflate the currentTime api with parameters for accuracy.
> 
> In terms of real world use cases, we use accurate seeks in an html5
> video editor. Its especially important when flattening with firefogg
> that as we can accurately set a given time in source videos per our 
> output frame interval.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sequencer

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