Re: great news from YouTube on frag addressing

More news from YouTube:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/release-notes-91709.html

One new feature they added relates to your history of watching videos.

"Resume where you left off: Let's say you're watching an epic (read:
longer than 20 minutes) video, and you get distracted and click away.
The next time you return to the video, it will resume where you left
off watching, assuming you've watched more than one minute of the
video and there are more than three minutes left."

This also means that when you browse away from the video and come back
to it, it will go back to the offset that you were on before. Very
important for flawless video browsing using media fragment URIs!

Cheers,
Silvia.


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> YouTube have just added additional fragment addressing capabilities to
> their video player:
> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/08/clicking-on-youtube-video.html
> . Now, when you are in the middle of watching a embedded video and
> click through to its host page, you will start watching from the time
> offset at which you clicked.
>
> I think that's awesome news and will further instill in people the
> need for media fragment uri references (!). :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>

Received on Saturday, 19 September 2009 09:35:43 UTC