[Playlist] XSPF Start/End time Zeitgeist

[Lucas Gonze]

Nathan Freitas wrote:
> Kent Bye wrote:
>> He suggested the extension schema of:
>> <extension>
>>   <cl:clip start="10000" end="20000"/>
>> </extension>
> That looks prettier than my suggestion. I think I had wed myself to the 
> <meta> tag, as we are using it for <meta rel="type"></meta> mime-type 
> stuff.

It doesn't solve this problem, though:

Let's say the item in the //playlist/trackList/track/location is two 
hours long, and you only want the chunk in the time span 1:10-1:11 (the 
11th minute of the 2nd hour), and you have a player which doesn't 
recognize the clip extension.  What will happen then is that you'll get 
the entire thing from beginning to end, not the clip, and that will do 
you no good at all.

Here is a syntax which doesn't have that problem, because the location 
isn't even seen if the user agent doesn't recognize the clip extension:
<cl:clip start="1000" end="2000" location="http://example.com/foo.mp3"/>