Re: [whatwg] Scripted querying of video capabilities

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Tim Starling wrote: Would it be possible to add methods or properties to HTMLMediaElement to support scripted determination of client codec capabilities? The answer, based on replies quoted below from browser vendors, appears to be no, sadly. I agree that it would be a

Re: [whatwg] Video : Slow motion, fast forward effects

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chris Double wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So can I assume HTML5 spec also allow playbackRate to be negative value. ie to support go backward at various speed Yes.

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO tag height/width best fit

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, João Eiras wrote: In this regard, video should be handled like img. While handling an image, if you specify a width and leave height as auto, the UA will resize the height to keep the aspect ratio, because the UA known the images intrinsic dimensions. The same

[whatwg] Scripted video query proposal; Query supported formats for media elements

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Hickson
This e-mail is a reply to two threads asking for a way to see if a type is supported. As with the earlier thread on the same topic, it is something that I think would be good if we could provide it, but my understanding is that it isn't something that is realistically going to be reliably

Re: [whatwg] Scripted querying of video capabilities

2008-10-13 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Tim Starling wrote: Would it be possible to add methods or properties to HTMLMediaElement to support scripted determination of client codec capabilities? The answer, based on replies quoted below from browser vendors,

[whatwg] WebSocket and proxies

2008-10-13 Thread Shannon
In the process of testing my WebSocket proposal I discovered the CONNECT method has a major restriction. Most proxies disable CONNECT to anything but port 443. The following is from Squid and the Blowfish: -- It is very important that you stop CONNECT type requests to non-SSL

Re: [whatwg] Scripted video query proposal; Query supported formats for media elements

2008-10-13 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to play all the videos you have available, and catch errors: video id=a source src=video.mp4 type=video/mp4; codecs=quot;avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2quot; source src=video.3gp type=video/3gpp; codecs=quot;mp4v.20.8,

Re: [whatwg] Video : Slow motion, fast forward effects

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Singer
At 22:41 + 13/10/08, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Dave Singer wrote: Would you expect the audio to be played backwards too? I think that's extra credit and optional. It's now not allowed, though I suppose an author could always have two video elements and could make the

Re: [whatwg] Scripted querying of video capabilities

2008-10-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 14:21 +0900 schrieb Dave Singer: At 20:06 + 13/10/08, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Dave Singer wrote: In general, the source fallbacks are also a way to 'probe' this, albeit in a very different way. I'm not sure you can always get a

Re: [whatwg] Scripted querying of video capabilities

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Singer
At 7:40 +0200 14/10/08, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: What's a portal page - wouldn't it be the job of the Browser / Media Framework to prompt for codec installs ? They are used today; it's a page with a 'published URL' through which people normally gain access to the site. You can check