[whatwg] Start position of media resources

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at apple.com> wrote:

>   A media file with a non-zero initial time stamp is not new to
> oggz-chopped files (eg. an MPEG stream initial PTS can have any value, SMPTE
> time-codes do not necessarily start at zero, etc) , but I disagree that we
> need a new attribute to handle it.
>
>   Media time values are expressed in normal play time (NPT), the absolute
> position relative to the beginning of the presentation. It is the
> responsibility of the UA to map time zero of the element to the starting
> time of the media resource, whatever it may be.
>

What if a script wants to present UI that contains the time from the media
resource?

Rob
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