Do we need to support media that doesn't start at 0?

 From todays teleconf.

The question comes up in some test cases in  
<http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/TC/ua-test-cases.html>.

It it my experience that media not starting at time 0 is extremely rare,  
I've really only seen it in poorly remuxed MPEG-2 transport streams and  
similar. I would say that *if* a user agent supports media that doesn't  
start at 0, then we should clamp the request start to the start time when  
necessary. I don't think that we should make the start/end relative to the  
media start position, as that would be inconsistent.

Discuss.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 10:03:46 UTC