On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:18:07 PM UTC+3, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Timothy B. Terriberry < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > In addition to Anant's objections, the last time I looked at this > API, the > > actual format of the bytes you could append was not specified in enough > > detail to allow interoperable implementations, some of the details > > essentially required you to parse Ogg resources in the JS before you > could > > hand them off properly (if you were using that format), the seeking model > > had issues (and I believe could not work at all with Ogg), and it was > very > > unclear how it was meant to interact with the browser's cache. > > > > I think those issues have been improved in the latest draft. > http://html5-mediasource-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-spec/mediasource-draft-spec.html > > I actually think Media Source is a reasonably good spec for situations > where the app has to manipulate compressed data buffers --- e.g. for > script-controlled adaptive streaming. Yes, the script has to know about the > container format, so that adds a lot of complexity that we should avoid > with higher-level APIs when possible (e.g. if we just want to play two > resources in series). But sometimes it's not possible. > > Rob > -- > “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ > But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, > that you may be children of your Father in heaven. ... If you love those > who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors > doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more > than others?" [Matthew 5:43-47]
Hi, Any news considering this? There are other scenarios that require this js-level API. In our case, we don't get the video from a single server but fetch it dynamically using javascript. We need an API that will allow us to push this data to the video tag... Thanks, Hadar _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
