- From: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:06:30 +0000
- To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no] > > On 10/22/2012 03:24 PM, Stefan Hakansson LK wrote: > > On 10/22/2012 03:19 PM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote: > >> > >> I'd like to discuss how an application that is using one camera can > >> switch to using a different camera without creating a new stream. > > > > Thanks for providing feedback on the draft agenda! > > > > To have that kind of discussion in an efficient manner, I think we > > would need a straw man's proposal. And since this is not possible with > > the current set of API functions, a motivation. > > > > Is this something you could put together and send to the list within > > the next couple of days? > > Travis has suggested some functions in his "constraint tweaking" > proposal that would also have the effect of being able to select a > different camera - I asked for more detail on that aspect of his > proposal, don't know if he added it in the latest update. Nope, I haven't updated the draft. The basic idea is that a developer would be able to "see" the available cameras/devices, but could not "activate" one of them without taking a specific step (either through getUserMedia, or a similar function). That function would force the device to go through the permissions UX.
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