[whatwg] Proposal for a MediaSource API that allows sending media data to a HTMLMediaElement

[Robert O'Callahan]

It seems to me that the spec is written assuming only one media element is
consuming the MediaSource. But nothing stops multiple elements consuming the
same URL simultaneously. Maybe instead of going through a URL you should add
API directly to media elements.

bytesAvailable is for flow control? Instead of doing it this way, I would
follow WebSockets and use a bufferedAmount attribute to indicate how much
data is currently buffered up. That makes it easy for authors who don't want
to care about flow control to just append stuff without encountering errors,
while still allowing authors who care about flow control to do it.

Rob
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