- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:59:50 +0100
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:41:17 +0100, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote: > One solution that could work here is to honour dynamic changes to > 'preload', > so switching preload to 'none' would stop buffering. Then a script could > do > that, for example, after the user has paused the video for ten seconds. > The > script could also look at 'buffered' to make its decision. The only difference between preload=none and preload=metadata is how much is fetched if the user doesn't interact at all with the video. Once the user has begun playing, I think the two mean the same thing: "please don't waste my bandwidth more than necessary". In other words, I think that for preload=metadata, browsers should be somewhat conservative even after playback has begun, not going all the way to the preload=auto behavior. -- Philip J?genstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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