- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:37:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > Because media fragment URIs will not deliver the full resource like a > HTML page does, but will instead only provide the segment that is > specified with the temporal region. http://example.com/video.ogg#t=5s > only retrieves the video from 5s to the end, not from start to end. > > So you cannot scroll to the beginning of the video without another > retrieval action: i.e. assuming we displaying the full video timeline > for a <video src="http://example.com/video.ogg#t=5s"..> element, and > then the user clicks on the beginning of the video, a > http://example.com/video.ogg#t=0s request would be sent. > > The difference is the need for the additional retrieval action, which, > if the full resource was immediately downloaded for > http://example.com/video.ogg#t=5s would not be necessary. But that's not > how media fragments work, so I tried pointing this out. It's generally understood that videos wouldn't be downloaded all at once anyway; UAs are expected to download the bits they want to cache, jumping in and out of the resources as the user seeks, etc. So this doesn't seem like a major difference to me. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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