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Bug 23493 - <video>: preciseSeek()
Summary: <video>: preciseSeek()
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: Needs Impl Interest
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Depends on: 8278 22678
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Reported: 2013-10-14 19:42 UTC by Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
Modified: 2016-02-02 17:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-14 19:42:35 UTC
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Jer Noble wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Should we add a preciseSeek() method with two arguments that does a
> > seek using the given rational time?
>
> This method would be more useful if there were a way to retrieve the
> media's time scale.  Otherwise, the script would have to pick an
> arbitrary scale value, or provide the correct media scale through other
> means (such as querying the server hosting the media).  Additionally,
> authors like Rob are going to want to retrieve this precise
> representation of the currentTime.  If rational time values were
> encapsulated into their own interface, a "preciseCurrentTime" (or
> similar) read-write attribute could be used instead.
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2016-02-02 17:52:55 UTC
Discussion has moved on to https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/609