[whatwg] Scripted querying of <video> capabilities

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:

> Do you mean trying to download each video, giving it to GStreaming and
> seeing if an error code comes back?
>

That might be what we have to do, yes.

But at least that can be done asynchronously. You couldn't implement a
synchronous JS query API that way of course.

Hmm, I suppose you could implement a synchronous API by making a collection
of videos, one in each known format, and on startup trying to play them all,
and recording which ones were successful. But "ugly" doesn't even begin to
describe that solution.

Rob
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