> On 7 Aug 2018, at 5:24 pm, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> OK.  Do you have any signals at all from Safari and Edge?  Even just knowing 
> "not opposed in current form but no concrete plans to implement" would be 
> useful, compared to them suddenly coming back with requests for changes in 
> the spec.

I’ll enquire on that…

https://wpt.fyi/results/media-source/mediasource-changetype-play.html 
<https://wpt.fyi/results/media-source/mediasource-changetype-play.html>
https://wpt.fyi/results/media-source/mediasource-changetype.html 
<https://wpt.fyi/results/media-source/mediasource-changetype.html>

> 
>> Google’s main interest for this is for ad insertions unfortunately, a bit 
>> sad when there’s so much potential.
> 
> Does this make the ad insertion case better for our users in some way, at 
> least?

It makes it easier for the site.
They typically gets ads from ad suppliers with h264/aac content ; for YouTube 
that allows to easily insert them in their vp9/opus content without having to 
convert them…

So previously, you would have to either pause the current video element, create 
a new one, and set it as overlay, and once done tear everything done.

Now, everything can be done inline, much smoother transitions

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