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Bug 12195 - <video> canplay event is fired long before one can play in any meaningful way
Summary: <video> canplay event is fired long before one can play in any meaningful way
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-02-26 13:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-02-26 13:03:33 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#handling-first-frame-available

Comment:
canplay event is fired long before one can play in any meaningful way

Posted from: 81.234.240.242 by philip@foolip.org
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2011-02-26 13:08:13 UTC 
The canplay event is fired as readyState changes from HAVE_CURRENT_DATA to HAVE_FUTURE_DATA, that is when 2 frames worth of data has been buffered. Scripts can't actually use this event to determine when it would be appropriate to play, as playing just one frame and pausing is not helpful. When waiting for the network, the behavior one wants is that say 10 seconds of data is buffered before starting playback. Single frames and tiny burst of audio is not useful.

My preferred solution to the problem would be to redefine HAVE_FUTURE_DATA to mean that something more than 1 frame ahead is available. Possible UA-defined, but something like 5-10 seconds at least.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-03 00:24:53 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The name of the event is poor, but it is not useless: it's the time at which you can enable "frame forward" UI.

I'm open to adding a separate event that means "you can now play more than N seconds of content", but I'm not sure what N would be useful that is less than the N for canplaythrough.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:04:41 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1