[Bug 12339] New: We should mention that UAs may use a different clock than the wall clock for defining the rate of time in the media timeline, specifically so that they are allowed to use the soundcard clock to ensure reliable audio playback.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12339

           Summary: We should mention that UAs may use a different clock
                    than the wall clock for defining the rate of time in
                    the media timeline, specifically so that they are
                    allowed to use the soundcard clock to ensure reliable
                    audio playback.
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#med
                    ia-timeline
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#media-timeline

Comment:
We should mention that UAs may use a different clock than the wall clock for
defining the rate of time in the media timeline, specifically so that they are
allowed to use the soundcard clock to ensure reliable audio playback.

Posted from: 76.102.14.57 by ian@hixie.ch
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Received on Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:53:11 UTC