On 16 Mar 2007, at 15:32, Shadow2531 wrote:
.loop, .startpos loop = false | true autostart = true | false startpos = 0 | specified posCould you elaborate on the use cases for these?<video src="VideoIWasWatching.ogg"><param name="startpos" value="value gotten from cookie where I left off at"></video>
The downside of that is sites have to implement a cookie system. I don't want to do that on my own site and many personal website owners won't know how to either. For the above usage case, I don't see why "remembering where you left off" can't be a user-agent feature rather than part of the specification. Granted that would fail if you switch browsers but people don't do that much.
All said, it would be very useful if the startpos param could be returned to the server when starting the download, or when scrubbing forward into parts of the video that haven't yet downloaded. as that would help avoid using bandwidth unnecessarily.
I see two ways to do that over HTTP: 1) As a HTTP header 2) In the URL There is also currently this RTSP URL format understood by RealPlayer: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/french/fre0600.ra?start=%2220%22Other formats may understand other parameters, or not define startpos as an integer number of seconds, but use hrs:mins:secs etc. How would the UA then send the startpos if differing content types used different mechanisms?
- Nicholas.
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