[html5] Autoplay and preload insufficient for proper video playback.

[Eric Carlson]

On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Kevin Carle wrote:

> 
> At the very least it would be nice to be told how much had been loaded before playback began (maybe as part of an event). I suppose polling buffered would work, if buffered actually worked properly...
> 
> Theoretical scenario:
> 
> Listen for canplay -- this _should_ fire when just a couple frames are ready, yes?
> Poll buffered state until desired buffer amount
> Call play()
> 
> I don't think this actually works today though, largely due to bad implementations of buffered.
> 
  I am not aware of problems with WebKit's implementation, have you filed bugs?

eric