<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@ocallahan.org">robert@ocallahan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Simon Pieters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonp@opera.com" target="_blank">simonp@opera.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
What if you have a video with say one frame per second? Unless I'm mistaken Firefox will still fire timeupdate once per frame. (The spec says you have to fire at least every 250ms.)<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote>
</div><br clear="all"></div>Hmm. Why would you want timeupdate to fire more often than once per frame?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you tie progress bar animation to timeupdate, the position will update in larger steps depending on the framerate of the video. i.e., a 10 second clip at 1fps will animate in 10 large steps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If your video subsystem returns a wall clock or some continuously increasing time source, the 250ms update will at least give you a smoother animating progress bar. i.e., a 10 second clip at 1fps will animate in 40 smaller steps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andrew</div></div>