- From: Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:32:20 -0400
On 10/15/08, Andy Lyttle <whatwg at phroggy.com> wrote: > On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Jo?o Eiras wrote: > >> Why not just assuming that playcount="0" means loops forever ? > > This was exactly my thought. > > If playcount="5" causes the video to be played 5 times, what should > the result of each of these be? > > playcount="1" > playcount="0" > playcount="-5" > playcount="foobar" > > Is there any possible usefulness whatsoever in making playcount="0" > not play the video at all? If not, I don't see a good reason not to > use that to mean infinite looping. > > Either that, or some keyword, but I don't know what it should be. > "infinite" and "forever" come to mind. FWIW, the Windows media plugin APIs (when used with np-mswmp.dll or npdsplay.dll with WMP 11 installed) have a playCount param. It's specified to be a long with a minimal value of 1 and a default of 1. If you set playCount to 0, the track will loop forever. If you set it to < 0 or anything out of range or invalid, it'll default to 1. I think if you have older versions of wmp installed though, playCount of 0 will cause the track to not play and a playCount of -1 will cause the track to loop forever. Of course, a loop param would still show the intent better. -- Michael
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