Re: First draft available

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:

> But what if we have multiple cameras? Front and back are common enough now.
>
> navigator.cameras[0].addEventListener("end", function() {
>    console.log('camera has been turned off')
> }, false)
>


Is the thinking here that it may be necessary to stream from multiple
cameras/microphones simultaneously rather than allow the user agent UI to
choose one of multiple sources?

This seems to be the intention of the MediaStream interface (
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webrtc-20111027/#mediastream) which allows for
multiple simultaneous video and audio tracks, but I'm not sure how common
this would be as a use case for capture from the local device. I suppose
you might want a stereoscopic camera or stereo microphone, or event some
kind of video-conferencing device that has several input streams in a
conference room/ studio...

The current draft says "user agents are encouraged default to using the
user's primary or system default camera and/or microphone", so do you think
the API should be more flexible than this?

Ben

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