RE: How to check if permission denied? from Travis Leithead on 2012-12-07 (public-media-capture@w3.org from December 2012)

From: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 18:45:26 +0000
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Adam Bergkvist <adam.bergkvist@ericsson.com>
CC: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9768D477C67135458BF978A45BCF9B3853AD1B57@TK5EX14MBXW603.wingroup.windeploy.ntde>

> From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com]
> 
> On 6 December 2012 22:44, Adam Bergkvist <adam.bergkvist@ericsson.com>
> wrote:
> > Could we have a solution where the selector UI is always shown even
> though
> > no "real" devices met the mandatory constraints? In that case you could
> > still select a file to emulate, e.g., a camera.
> 
> A few reasons that I don't like this idea:
>  - getUserMedia is not the right API for non-device sources of media

I don’t feel as strongly on this one. I think nearly all the pieces are in place for the user to supply any media and have the media stream and tracks work in a well-defined, consistent manner.

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