RE: Distinguishing video and audio streams to enable fine-grained feature control

Perhaps we could further tie this proposed functionality to tracks coming from a getUserMedia source by making them "Local", e.g., LocalVideoStreamTrack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Tibbett [mailto:richt@opera.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:01 PM
> To: Anant Narayanan
> Cc: public-media-capture@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Distinguishing video and audio streams to enable fine-grained
> feature control
> 
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Anant Narayanan <anant@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rich,
> >
> > On 08/14/2012 04:38 AM, Rich Tibbett wrote:
> >> The proposal herein therefore incorporates an initial set of controls
> >> for developers to tune certain web camera feature. We expect this
> >> will be of interest for a large number of other use cases, such as
> >> Camera capabilities detection and control in the form of a
> >> best-effort approach that is inclusive and 'webby' by design.
> >>
> >> Our primary concern at this time is to get a sense for whether
> >> there's agreement around supplying these options to developers or not
> >> and then to subsequently discuss whether the interface proposal
> >> provided is fit for purpose. If anyone else has alternative proposals
> >> then we'd be interested to discuss them further here of course.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up! We've also identified these needs at Mozilla
> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/CameraControl) and would love to
> incorporate these features into the specification.
> 
> I actually hadn't come across your wish list before but it seems to almost
> perfectly describe the functionality of VideoStreamTrack :)
> 
> >
> > I haven't gone through your proposal in detail, but it looks like a solid start!
> 
> Coool.
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Anant
> >
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:40:42 UTC