On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > The W3C WG for media fragments has published a Last Call Working Draft > at http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/ . > > The idea of the spec is to enable addressing sub-parts of audio-visual > resources through URIs, such as http://example.com/video.ogv?t=10,40 > to address seconds 10-40 out of video.ogv. This is relevant for use in > the <audio> and <video> elements and can help focus the playback to a > specific subpart. > When dealing with timed content - shouldn't there be a relative URI meaning from the current time to the designated time. I'm thinking of something like: http://example.com/video.ogv#t=,40 Which would be used to continue a piece a playing media up to the 40 second point and then stop. This could prevent a fetch by the UA to the start of the media fragment which could be especially useful if the media is marked as no-cache. I'm thinking an article could outline links on a page each of which would cause a related video to continue playing up to the point specified in the link and then stop - giving the reader a chance to catch up. This also brings up the matter of link targets. Shouldn't I be able to do something like this: <video name="presentation"></video> <a href="#,50" target="presentation">Next Slide</a>
