On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Chris Double wrote:

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Eric Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However I also think
that playing just a segment of a media file will be a common use- case, so I
don't think we need "start" and "end" either.

How would you emulate end via JavaScript in a reasonably accurate
manner?


  With a cue point.

If I have a WAV audio file and I want to start and stop
between specific points? For example a transcript of the audio may
provide the ability to play a particular section of the transcript.

If you use a script-based controller instead of the one provided by the UA, you can easily limit playback to whatever portion of the file you want:

SetTime: function(time) { this.elem.currentTime = (time<this._minTime) ? this._minTime : (time>this._maxTIme? this._maxTIme:time); }

I agree that it is more work to implement a custom controller, but it seems a reasonable requirement given that this is likely to be a relatively infrequent usage pattern.

Or do you think that people will frequently want to limit playback to a section of a media file?

eric

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