Re: W3C Last Call announcement for Media Capture

On 14 Apr 2015 02:13, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
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> On 04/13/2015 06:02 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
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>> How can you apply a filter chain for video capture to a VIDEO element's
src?
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> Not using this API, that's for sure.
>
> We don't even have the concept of a video filter. A spec for such a
concept could be written (in some ways a MediaRecorder looks a bit like a
video filter), but it doesn't need to be part of this spec.
>

Video filters are being written using the canvas api these days. You
capture frames into the canvas and then can do whatever you like with the
pixels. This can also be done with live video. Is that not sufficient? What
is the use case?

Cheers,
Silvia.