Re: [whatwg] Exposing framerate / statistics of video playback and related feedback

2012-11-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 1 May 2012, Charles Pritchard wrote: The list looked at having a (canvas) ctx.stream = mediaElement; option to better copy frames from a media stream into Canvas. I don't think that the assignment operator will work, but it does seem like we could optimize our drawImage calls to

Re: [whatwg] Exposing framerate / statistics of video playback and related feedback

2012-05-01 Thread Hugh Guiney
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010, Ian Fette wrote: Has any thought been given to exposing such metrics as framerate, how many frames are dropped, rebuffering, etc from the video tag? It has come up a lot, but the main question is: what is

Re: [whatwg] Exposing framerate / statistics of video playback and related feedback

2012-05-01 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 5/1/12 10:21 AM, Hugh Guiney wrote: If you have fixed frame rates, it's trivial to do the conversion to and from SMTPE timecode in JavaScript; you don't need any direct support from the media element API. Yes, but we currently have no way of knowing what fixed frame rate we are working

[whatwg] Exposing framerate / statistics of video playback and related feedback

2012-04-30 Thread Ian Hickson
There was a lot of e-mail on this topic, but a stark lack of descriptions of actual end-user use cases for these features, as will be clear in the responses I give below. A quick reminder therefore that in adding features to HTML the first thing we want to look for is the problem that we are