Silvia Pfeiffer schrieb:
The duration is indeed jumping quite a bit between 8min and 12 min and even at the end still has a gap of actual end time of 9m54s while the estimate is still at 10m44s.
Actually that gap means the byte-accounting is still buggy. Hmmm...
Players like YouTube's player display the duration of the file which is very useful for a consumer to estimate if they actually have the time to spend on watching the video. So, even if we don't use the duration/length attribute for calculating the timeline, it may well be useful metadata for display purposes.
I agree. However, even if the media element itself doesn't evaluate that attribute content providers could still attach it to the media element for their JavaScript-players to fetch that information. Making that standard may make sense, though.
BTW: are you planning to implement seeking on the timeline, too? It would probably not too bad given the smoothness of the slider position.
Aye, I'm absolutely planning to implement seeking. This applet is supposed to become a fallback option if the browser itself has no media elements, so it should implement enough HTML5-media scripting to be usable for the more common usecases.
Maik
