[whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

John Foliot - WATS.ca foliot at wats.ca
Fri Oct 24 23:41:32 PDT 2008


Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> 
> (Probably the best way to do something like this (short of a realtime
> sound API) would be the ability to queue up an audio file (or range
> thereof) to play next when the current one finishes, because then the
> media framework can take care of ensuring a smooth transition.)

"Playlists" such as this can be done with SMIL / SAMI already - smooth
transitioning is up to the UA
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SMIL3-20061220/smil-serverplaylist-profile.htm
l] 
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752554(VS.85).aspx]
[http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production/htmfiles/smil.htm]


(one more reason why you don't want to burn everything into a monolith file)

JF




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