- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:08:33 -0800
At 2:06 +0000 2/12/08, Ian Hickson wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Chris Double wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> For the few servers that don't support seeking, duration is not >> >> available. >> > >> > Note that that is non-conforming at the moment. You have to have a >> > duration available (though it can be +Infinity if you think that the >> > resource is a stream, and can be an estimate, so long as you keep >> > updating it as your information gets better.) >> >> I think the spec should be changed to allow duration to be NaN in the >> case where it cannot be determined. > >We removed some other features (e.g. bufferedBytes and totalBytes) because >implementors said they would always provide accurate values in the >buffered and duration attributes. If we allow duration to be NaN, then >we'd have to re-add the other features again. what is the duration of an indefinite stream (e.g. live or simulated live)? -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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