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Popular video file players have supported generating iframe tracks for fast forwarding and thumbnail scrubbing for many years now, is there something about the

• zbobet2012 7y ago
  It's terrible performance on a power limited devices. It either burns up your battery or is unreasonably slow. Particularly when the source stream is high resolution or complexity.
  • Rychard 7y ago
    Sure, but if you have the file, you could generate these ahead of time on a more powerful machine. At any rate, I don't think users would balk at being given a choice.
    • auggierose 7y ago
      Yeah, but would they pay for it?
    • afiori 7y ago
      > You could of course build a "file based" implementation that had all of these features, but you would just be rebuilding DASH or HLS.