Re: [rtcweb] a couple of comments on the latest API draft

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>wrote:

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> On 10/21/2011 10:53 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
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> http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc-20111017.html
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> I'm not sure that "blackness" is the appropriate output for a finished
> MediaStream. HTML media elements that aren't playing anything are
> transparent. For consistency, it's probably better for MediaStreams that
> aren't playing anything to also be transparent.
>
> Seems to me that an ended MediaStream should not contribute anything to its
> playout element, so the playout element should be the one deciding what to
> do. Good point.
>

Yeah. Actually video elements normally keep showing the last frame when they
end, so we'll want a way to support that too.

The way it's currently written, "finished" is permanent, but "disabled" is
> changeable.
>

"finished" == "ended", right? :-)

OK, I will try to write the ProcessedMediaStream spec so that "ended" is a
permanent state. This means that when you get a MediaStream for an HTML
media element, the MediaStream will have to be tied to the currently playing
media resource, and when playback ends that MediaStream will become inactive
and a new MediaStream generated if the author seeks the media resource and
starts playing it again, or loads a new media resource.

Rob
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