RE: Thoughts on converging MediaStream and Stream objects

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no]
>
>I think you are misled by an accident of naming.
>
>If anything should be converged with the Stream API (something I'm not
>at all sure of), it should be the MediaStreamTrack.
>
>The sharpest difference is that a Stream is a byte pipe; a
>MediaStreamTrack is a control surface for an underlying implementation
>where the concept of "byte" doesn't even have to be meaningful.

I certainly understand the difference between the MediaStreamTrack 
and the Stream-as-a-byte-pipe, however I didn't make the connection to
why/how you think the two should be converged? Can you explain in more
detail?

Received on Friday, 9 December 2011 21:53:21 UTC