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Bug 10028 - Adding informations about the bitrate of the video to the source element could allow user agent to select the right video in case the same format is available in different levels of quality.
Summary: Adding informations about the bitrate of the video to the source element coul...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_b...
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Reported: 2010-06-29 02:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-03-19 17:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-06-29 02:51:04 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-source-element

Comment:
Adding informations about the bitrate of the video to the source element could
allow user agent to select the right video in case the same format is
available in different levels of quality.

Posted from: 118.22.46.192
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-28 04:44:41 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Maybe in a future version. For now we haven't even gotten the basics of the API implemented reliably.
Comment 2 public-rdfa-wg 2013-01-24 06:26:27 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create HTML WG bug 19065.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-03-19 17:41:10 UTC 
I think the right way to fix this is adaptive bitrate transmission.