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

[Herman Hassel]

I keep finding the media attributes "preload" and "autoplay" 
insufficient for video playback. I suggest we also have an optional 
buffer attribute in addition to the "preload" and "autoplay" attributes.

Buffer would contain a value either set in time or size.

So autoplay would first check if the video should be started before the 
end user requests it or not.

Then if no autoplay, the preload would check if the video should start 
to load before the user requests it or not.

Then upon playing, the video wouldn't start until the minimum value of 
milliseconds or data had been buffered.

examples: (stripped of closing tags or other elements)

<video buffer="5000ms">   this video would not be allowed to play until 
at least 5 seconds of it has been loaded.

<video buffer="200KB">   this video would not be allowed to play until 
at least 200KB of it has loaded.

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Herman Hassel
Agrabush Design

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