[Bug 18400] Define and document timestamp heuristics

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18400

--- Comment #3 from Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> 2012-08-13 16:13:01 UTC ---
A further point occured to me on this one: there may be container formats which
can explicitly indicate that there is no media between certain timestamps. For
example a video format which could indicate that a block spanned time x to x+2s
even though the last frame in the block is timerstamped 1.8s, say.

In particular, subtitle/text formats may have this property.

If the container has this property, then the heurisitics proposed above should
not be used: there should be no gaps in the timeline at all.

In the ISO File Format case for adaptive streaming, this information is
actually available from the Segment Index (but not in the Movie Fragments).

Perhaps we ought to be able to specify the segment duration explicitly in the
append call ? This would allow to application to communicate what it knows
about block sized to the UA.

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Received on Monday, 13 August 2012 16:13:03 UTC