[whatwg] I have feature requests for <video> and <audio> tags.

[Ralph Giles]

On 11-11-17 12:29 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:

> Authors do however know how loud the volume of the media is though. If
> a video is encoded with a very loud volume, or a very quiet volume, it
> can be quite useful to be able to adjust that up or down when linking
> to it.

I was going to say, that sounds like user-agents should support
replay-gain tags. Note that expected line level is actually a required
header for the Opus codec's Off encapsulation.

However, relying on a replaygain tag in the media file does violate the
'simple to author' goal of html.

 -r