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

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> Oh, so the idea is that the earlier data might actually be seekable, it's
> just that the UA seeks to an offset, much like with media fragments? The
> exception might be live streaming, where the duration is +Inf anyway.


Yes.

I don't think the current spec allows you to seek to before the "earliest
> possible position", pretty much by definition.
>
> These are the cases I know of where an offset of some kind may be relevant:
>
> * live streaming.
>
> * server-applied media fragments where the offset of the fragment is given
> in a header of the resource.
>
> For live streaming, I'm not sure the current spec has a problem, if
> browsers would implement the startTime property.


But you just said you want to get rid of startTime "regardless of anything
else"!

For resources which themself claim an offset, I think we should let them
> start at 0 anyway and let people who really want a weird timeline fix it
> themselves.


That means they basically won't work with most players, which won't be
expecting to deal with negative seekable times or the "weird timeline".

Rob
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