On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Chris Marrin wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > >> >> On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Zack S wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> There's a feature that I would find useful that's not as far as I know a >>> part of HTML5/Javascript in Webkit based browsers. >>> >>> Namely, I'd like to be able to open a video from within Javascript without >>> necessarily wanting to play it, but rather I want to be able to extract >>> frames out of it as image objects and/or to extract the corresponding sound >>> portions of frames. >> >> I can't speak to the sound aspect of this, but you can get pixel data by >> painting a <video> to the canvas element. > > There are cross-domain restrictions on this functionality, right?
The cross-origin restrictions are only present when reading back from the canvas - but any api that allowed someone to read or transmit the content of a video element from js would need to have the same restrictions. --Oliver > > ----- > ~Chris > cmar...@apple.com > > > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
