[whatwg] Frame advance feature for a paused VIDEO

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2009 06:35:39 +0200, Biju <bijumaillist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I dont see a way to do frame advance feature for a paused VIDEO.
>>
>> Is there a way to achieve that ?
>> As well as frame backward also.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Biju
>>
>
> If you pause the video and set currentPosition it should advance to that
> frame. As long as you know the frame rate you're good to go. All in theory
> of course, implementations may not be all the way there yet.


I don't think there is a standard way to expose the frame rate. We might
even want something more general than the frame rate, since conceivably you
could have a video format where the interval between frames is variable.

Rob
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