19057 – Media elements should provide a "next" property to gaplessly play back another media object after it has finished. This woud allow proper playback of gapless albums and an in-browser implementation of HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming.

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Bug 19057 - Media elements should provide a "next" property to gaplessly play back another media object after it has finished. This woud allow proper playback of gapless albums and an in-browser implementation of HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming.

Summary: Media elements should provide a "next" property to gaplessly play back anothe...

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	HTML WG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact:	HTML WG Bugzilla archive list

URL:	http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:	NoReply

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Reported:	2012-09-25 22:01 UTC by contributor
Modified:	2012-09-25 22:27 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-09-25 22:01:45 UTC

This was was cloned from bug 7253 as part of operation LATER convergence.
Originally filed: 2009-08-10 20:00:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2009-08-10 20:00:07 +0000 
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Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#audio

Comment:
Media elements should provide a "next" property to gaplessly play back another media object after it has finished. This woud allow proper playback of gapless albums and an in-browser implementation of HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming.

Posted from: 209.251.142.125
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2009-09-09 09:07:20 +0000 
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Agreed, but let's wait til we have good implementation experience on the current API before adding more. Deferring to a future version.
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 #2   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2009-09-09 09:08:19 +0000 
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*** Bug 7254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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 #3   Maciej Stachowiak                               2010-03-14 14:48:55 +0000 
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This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

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This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.
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