- From: <j@oil21.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:10:37 +0200
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:38 +0700, Philip J?genstedt wrote: > Implementation-wise it might be less than trivial to return an > exhaustive list of all supported mime-types if the underlying framework > doesn't use the concept of mime-types, but can say when given a few > bytes of the file whether it supports it or not. Allowing JavaScript to > second-guess this seems like a potential source of incompatibility. > Isn't it sufficient to look for MEDIA_ERR_DECODE and add fallback > content when that happens? i imagined something that would use the ?type string used in <source> so i can do: canDecode('video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"') ?or canDecode('video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"') while waiting for ?MEDIA_ERR_DECODE might be an option, it sounds to me that that would involve a network connection being made, the video being buffered and after that the media engine failing, this takes to long to make a presentation decision based on it. j
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