I have searched but I have not found this video option.

Description of situation:
In a web page.php I have 2 DIVs.
Insight every DIV there is a video.
For first time I show Div id=”one” that start in auto play.
I know its duration, so after, for example, 10 seconds I hide its DIV and show the div id=”two”.
I use 2 javascript functions.

Problem:
Some times the video in div id=”one” late to be ready to play, late to start to play, but the count down of 10 seconds is started. So it will be interrupt in (10 – (late)) seconds.
The video may be linked from youtobe or other server in different format as flv, wmv or ogg.

Needed:
How I can understand when the video is start to play, so after this time to start the count down?
Is there a javascript option that give me a status = ‘true’ where the video started, so I start the count down to change the div?

Thanks!
Alfredo.
Milan.

Firefox is for markup

It is inane to use firefox in lieu of MPlayer

:P

I see what you mean now. I misinterpreted.

Lack of Supporting mp4 with the native video tag in FF has to do mostly with licensing, as has been discussed here and elsewhere.

But honestly, as a developer i don’t think the lack of native mp4 support using the video element adds much complexity to video handling – you could use sometihng like this – http://metavid.org/wiki/Mv_Embed or do your own browser detection and output accordingly. it’s no worse than the current state of media embedding.

And it’s not a developers problem as much as it is a content creators concern… the users of the sites/pages that you build.
And video content creators typically are used to providing multiple formats for diff platofrms and devices. Not much changing there either. Except, I hope… more Ogg media.

Not much of an argument unless you are the ones responsible for the costs involved with integrating h.264… and with Ogg Theora improvements… the cost is not justifued compared to any differences in quality.

is how you could provide 3 formats. but you can also just provide whichever format you want and ignore others.

having a default codec does not cause a developer to have more problems. however, having a default codec does help a content creator have more assurance that a video can be played by modern browsers regardless of extra plugins (that need to be properly updated with various codecs).

Thanks Mozilla/Apple!

btw, was just curious about the poster attribute and landed on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449156

any idea when this will be avail in an 3.5RC ?

thanks.

sull

@Alexandre: For the a thumbnail, there’s the |poster=”"| attribute, but it isn’t implemented yet in Firefox. Multiple versions could probably be done with multiple |source| element (||), but that doesn’t seem to be supported either.

> It looks like there is no standard way to provide a few important information such as a thumbnail

No, there is such feature described by the html5 specification: the “poster” attribute, in which you can indicate an URL of an image. However this is not implemented in Firefox 3.5 (it will be in the next version).

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-video-poster

>and another quality

Again, the specification allows it, with the source element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-source-element

But it is not completely implemented in Firefox 3.5.

Thank you, Paul!