[whatwg] Cue points in media elements

[Kevin Calhoun]

On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Ralph Giles wrote:

>> [On Apr 29, 2007, at 12:14 AM, Brian Campbell wrote:[
>>
>>                                                          If video
>> playback freezes for a second, and so misses a cue point, is that
>> considered to have been "reached"?
>
> As I read it, cue points are relative to the current playback  
> position,
> which does not advance if the stream buffer underruns, but it would
> if playback restarts after a gap, as might happen if the connection
> drops, or in an RTP stream. My proposal above would need to be amended
> to handle that case, and the decoder dropping frames...finding the  
> right
> language here is hard.

I believe that a cue point is "reached" if its time is traversed  
during playback.

- Kevin