- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:42:14 +1100
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich" <k.scheppe@telekom.de>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> No, not if you are expecting it to return an actual image. A media >> fragment can only return the same mime type as the original resource. >> Thus, this will just return the video data for that particular time - >> it's still video data and not converted to jpg or png or anything >> else. > > UAs could just allow video files to be used as images, ignoring > everything past the first frame. Then you could even use foo.ogg#t=10 > for a poster, and it would work as expected. Nothing says UAs can't > support video/* as an image format. It wouldn't be very useful > without media fragments, of course. foo.ogg#t=10 means the video file from t=10 - which is not an image. I think you really mean foo.ogg#t=10,10 Also, video/* is distinctly different from image/* in mime types - if it wasn't we would have long since used video files in img tags. Cheers, Silvia.
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