[whatwg] Proposal: Media element - add attributes for discovery of playback rate support

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Peter Carlson (carlsop) wrote:
>
> Problem: The problem is that the supported playback speeds of a media 
> element may vary per media item (e.g., an on-demand movie) and as 
> supported by the underlying platform. Currently the application has to 
> discover the supported speeds by trial and error or by an alternative 
> non-HTML5 method that links to the media element.
>
> Recommendation: We suggest that the application should be able to 
> discover the available speeds at which it can play the media element. 
> These speeds provide the allowed playbackRate values. These speeds are 
> provided as attributes of the media element.

This seems less good than just having the browsers support all playback 
speeds, e.g. by decoding into a local buffer. Why would we prefer to 
expose the media's limitations rather than removing them?

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