Re: Media Capture and Streams question - applying constraints

On 06/14/2013 01:19 AM, Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com wrote:
> The latest editors draft of getUserMedia (Media Capture and Streams) [1] says in section 4.3.2 [2]
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> Constraints are independent of sources. However, if the sourceType is "none", the readonly attribute is true, or the remote attribute is true, the track's constraints will not be applied to the source.
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> Is it true that muting is not a constraint, so a source (remote or not, read only or not) can always be muted for a given sink?

Enabling is manipulated by setting the enabled property.
Muting is something that happens to a source outside of the JS.

Neither is a constraint; constraints are what is passed in a constraint 
structure.

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> I think the draft needs an example and more explanation regarding the characteristics of read-only and remote sources and what the limitations are and mean in practice.
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> regards, Frederick
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> Frederick Hirsch
> Nokia
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> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html
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> [2] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#tracks-and-constraints
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Received on Monday, 17 June 2013 10:27:17 UTC