[whatwg] [media] startOffsetTime, also add startTime?

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:56:03 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In current Opera and Firefox the timeline is always normalized 
> > > > > to start at 0, so the time that corresponds to 0 in the original 
> > > > > timeline would be at a negative currentTime.
> > > > 
> > > > I still don't really understand what you mean by "start" here.
> > > 
> > > What I mean with "normalized to start at 0" is that when playing the 
> > > whole resource
> > 
> > Now I don't understand what you mean by "whole resource". :-)
> > 
> > If a TV station starts broadcasting in October, and you join the 
> > stream in February, the "whole resource" is many months long. Where's 
> > your zero?
> > 
> > (I guess it's academic if you plan on changing; I'm just curious.)
> 
> Oh, "whole resource" is a bit of a misnomer, I really mean "everything 
> that we received". We don't make that distinction internally, since over 
> HTTP there's no way to tell the difference between a streaming resource 
> and a static resource served by a server that doesn't support byte 
> ranges. The timeline is shifted by the timestamp of the first audio or 
> video sample in the stream, such that currentTime is initially 0. The 
> plan is to remove that adjustment.

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.

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