[whatwg] Timestamp from video source in order to sync (e.g. expose OGG timestamp to javascript)

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Odin Omdal Hørthe <odin.omdal at gmail.com>wrote:

> Justin Dolske's idea looks rather nice:
> > This seems like a somewhat unfortunate thing for the spec, I bet
> everyone's
> > going to get it wrong because it won't be common. :( I can't help but
> wonder if
> > it would be better to have a startTimeOffset property, so that
> .currentTime et
> > al are all still have a timeline starting from 0, and if you want the
> "real"
> > time you'd use .currentTime + .startTimeOffset.
> >
> > I'd also suspect we'll want the default video controls to normalize
> everything
> > to 0 (.currentTime - .startTime), since it would be really confusing
> otherwise.
>

That's exactly what I've advocated before. I lost the argument, but I forget
why, probably because I didn't understand the reasons.

Rob
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