- From: Pierre-Olivier Latour <pol@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:46:33 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
>>> Considering the above I still highly recommend we remove >>> "defaultPlaybackRate" as it's no the right solution no matter >>> what, and >>> find a clean way to implement true FF playback DVD style which is >>> 2x, >>> 4x, etc... (typically not 1.76x), has no audio, and skips frames. >>> This >>> certainly sounds like an important feature. >> >> So how should fast forward and rewind look like in the API? I'm >> happy to >> use another solution if there's a better one; my understanding was >> that >> the current model was based on Apple's proposal. :-) > > > Well, there was an interesting confusion going on regarding playing > at 5x versus seeking at 5x (aka FF), which aren't quite the same, > and we certainly need to sort this out :) > > We'll provide some feedback on this issue soon I realized I had forgotten to reply to this email: the conclusion we reached internally is that we're fine with "defaultPlaybackRate" as it is defined now, for lack of a better solution to the aforementioned issues. ________________________________ Pierre-Olivier Latour - pol@apple.com Rich Media Team - Apple, Inc.
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