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 < [email protected]> 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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