- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:21:22 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > Note that in the Media Fragment working group even the specification > > of http://www.example.com/t.mov#time="10s-20s" may mean that only the > > requested 10s clip is delivered > > Since the part starting with '#' isn't sent as part of the HTTP GET request, > I'm not sure how this is envisioned to work. > > Is there a change to HTTP planned here? Presumably one would use byte range requests as if the user had just seeked to the given time. Ideally most videos wouldn't be sent using HTTP but using a more appropriate protocol that is designed for sending video; such protocols might have dedicated ways of jumping to particular times. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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