[Bug 13625] There is no way to pass audio and video content metadata to the user agent that is required in some cases for playback.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13625

--- Comment #3 from Bob Lund <b.lund@cablelabs.com> 2011-08-04 16:29:00 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Would it be possible to treat UPnP devices much like a webcam so that you get
> access to it via getUserMedia? That way the UA is pretty much free to do
> whatever is necessary to get access to the content.

I looked for getUserMedia in W3C HTML5 ed draft and WHATWG but didn't see
anything? Can you provide a link?

The problem is that the user agent might need this metadata for playback. If
getUserMedia is something available to script then it wouldn't appear to solve
this problem.

Bob

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Received on Thursday, 4 August 2011 16:29:02 UTC