[whatwg] HTML5 video seeking

[Aaron Colwell]

Hi Ralph,

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ralph Giles <giles at mozilla.com> wrote:

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> On 14/11/11 03:49 PM, Aaron Colwell wrote:
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> > Does this mean the user agent must resume playback at the exact
> > location specified?
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> Maybe you can muck with the 'media.seekable' TimeRanges object to only
> show keyframes?
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Yeah I thought about this, but it seems a little hacky and not what the
spec intended for seekable.



> Otherwise, it kind of sounds like you're supposed to start playback at
> the requested position. The final paragraph of that section suggests
> another out: you can reposition the playback head inside the playback
> engine as long as you clip to media.seekable and fire the timeupdate
> and seeked events.
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Yeah it looks to me like starting at the requested position is the only
option. I saw the text about media engine triggered seeks, but it seems
like users would be very surprised to see the seeking & seeked events for
the seek they requested immediately followed by a pair of events to a
location they didn't request. I can envision the angry bug reports now. ;)

Thanks for the response. Looks like we are interpreting the text the same
way.

Aaron