[whatwg] Start position of media resources

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, David Singer wrote:
> At 16:45  +0000 30/04/09, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, David Singer wrote:
> > > 
> > > If the resource is 'seekable' then time is relevant, and I agree 
> > > that time should be a normal play time and run from 0 to duration.
> > 
> > That wouldn't address the use case of files that were split with 
> > non-zero start times, though, where the author wants the original 
> > range to be the one visible in the UI.
> 
> The complexity of edited files is only really dealt with by embedded 
> time-codes.  A single segment is the beginning of a large can of worms;  
> what do you want to have happen when there are two segments played 
> consecutively? Following your logic, there would be a time-jump.

Yeah I'm not really sure how to handle this case. (I imagine it could get 
even worse with multiple frames having the same timecode). I guess time is 
linearised starting from the first frame's timecode?

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