On 2010-09-14 08:37, Julian Reschke wrote:
On 13.09.2010 23:51, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
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And for heavens sake, do not specify any sniffing as "official".
Instead, explicitly specify all sniffing as UA specific and possibly
suggest that UAs should inform the user that content is broken and the
current rendering is best effort if any sniffing is required.
This is totally incompatible with the compelling interoperability and
security benefits of all browsers using the exact same sniffing
algorithm.
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Again, there's more than browsers. And even for <video> in browsers,
the actual component playing the video may not be part of the browser
at all.
So there's *much* more that would need to implement the "exact same
sniffing".
Has anybody talked to the people responsible for VLC, Windows Media
Player, and Quicktime?
Best regards, Julian
Good question, I can only speak for my self as a developer but I imagine
that anything that allows a media player to stop sniffing "sooner" in a
file is very welcome indeed
as that saves resources (memory, disk access, faster initialization of
the codec and user related interface feedback, etc.)
Legacy files will always be an issue obviously, but there is no reason
to let future files remain just as "difficult", eventually legacy files
will vanish or be transcoded or have their beginning "patched" to take
advantage of it.
(in the case of my proposal one could easily add it by hand using a hex
editor, so it's certainly not difficult to support in that regard.)
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