[webkit-help] Video Buffer

[Bhavya Mihira]

Hi Julien,

Thanks a lot again.I have a page which has a video specified like this:

<object data=<video URL>/>

Now when the response is obtained the video content gets stored in a
buffer.I am trying to find out where exactly the functionality for storing
within the buffer is present.Sorry if I haven't been very clear about what
I was trying to ask.

Thanks and regards
Bhavya
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Julien Chaffraix <
julien.chaffraix at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am trying to create an API that returns a pointer to the
> > buffer where the video stream is stored.
>
> You did not say what you meant by the video stream. I assumed you were
> talking about the _decoded_ stream and my answer was based on that
> assumption.
>
> > If I am not wrong MediaPlayer.h
> > deals with videos specified in the video tag.
>
> You are right (it is also used by <audio btw). You seem to draw a line
> here, what kind of streaming are you interested in apart from <video>
> or <audio>?
>
> > WebCore/platform/dfb/SharedBufferDFB.cpp has a function
> > "createWithContentsOfFile(const String& filePath)". Can  this be used to
> > used to to create a buffer?
>
> SharedBuffer is used by the loader mechanism to communicate with the
> network stack. Now IIRC the media elements (audio, video) currently
> don't use the loaders: they just tell the third party library that
> will decode the data to just fetch and play the URL. This means that
> you don't get any of this information at the WebKit level.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Julien
>
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