- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:08:59 +1000
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Chris Double <chris.double at double.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: >> If we want to display that there >> is some more context around the video, we should display the offset >> time. I personally would prefer the latter option, since it relates >> directly with the original resource. > > This is what Firefox does at the moment for oggz-chop generated videos > which have these non-zero start times. The issue was brought to my > attention by a user that compared it to Safari using the XiphQT > plugin. In that case the time offset starts at zero apparently. > Possibly a difference in how XiphQT reports the time from the file. Must be a bug in XiphQT. >> I doubt though we need another attribute on the element - the >> information is stored in the src URL, so should be retrieved from >> there IMHO. > > In this case it is not stored in the src URL in a way the author of > the document can retrieve. An oggz-chopped file can be copied and > served with a normal filename for example. The time is embedded in the > Ogg file. There is no way for the author to retrieve it. Hence the > need for an attribute. Ah, yes, in this case it can only come from the file directly into a DOM property. I see. I agree, there is a need for an explicit attribute. Silvia.
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