[remote-playback] render a dummy video/progress bar (#143)

jimmywarting has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/remote-playback:

== render a dummy video/progress bar ==
Here is a dumb request that probably very few ppl would want/need, but i would like to be able to control media flinging myself somehow when casting with other means other than using remote playback api.

A senario would be that I would like to cast to a remote peer using WebRTC and where the remote device can't be found or don't support the remote playback specification. where i can have full control over syncing a remote playback with a DataChannel (and not mirror the media)

I found and tried to use this [dummy mediasource solution](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34488237/can-html5-mediasource-be-used-to-dynamically-generate-a-single-color-video-of-ar) 
But I never got it to work, also it don't have the other media tracks that would allow you to change subtitle or video/audio source. 

I wish that the controlling device could still shows a progress bar with a play/pause button but and still be able to change tracks and dose not download or render the video on the controllers device.

The only current solution is to disable the controller totally and rewrite everything with a own UI, but it would just have had been simpler/easier if i could attach all needed event listener to the `<video>` element instad of switching over to listening on the DataChannel. and custom DOM element

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/remote-playback/issues/143 using your GitHub account


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