- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:38:45 +1100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>, comments@daringfireball.net
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I think it's more useful to load the duration and dimensions. This is >> typically going to be only a couple of extra packets loaded >> asynchronously, right? > > > It's worse than that for Ogg, but I agree. Given that there's currently no > API to say "please load enough to give me the duration and dimensions, but > no more", that seems like a good default behaviour (and is what Firefox > does). Well, in fact we also proceed up to loadeddata, even if there is a > poster frame, but I think that's OK --- it's still a small amount of data > compared to a full video. > > Rob In Ogg and Annodex we have used a HTTP parameter called X-Content-Duration to communicate the duration of a video to a user agent. It may be an idea to introduce / implement this more widely for any content type, since typically it is not much of a problem for a server extension to calculate the duration of a video, but the user agent has to do all sorts of acrobatics to find out such. There is just the issue of creating server extensions... Regards, Silvia.
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