Re: suggest a parameter in getUserMedia

----- Sunyang (Eric) <eric.sun@huawei.com> wrote:
> During development, we do not need keyboard or mouse for input, just video camera for input.So it is not possible to use keyboard/mouse to select the options, and  our use case can have other way for user authentication.
> 
> And can we have a mode, that getUserMedia only generate mediastream without prompt to user for camera usage confirmation?
> 
> Can we have a parameter "popup:off" in getUserMedia ({video:true,audio:true,popup:off},gotStream,noStream)
> So browser will not prompt to user select device, and silently activate the camera and audio deivce.

In Firefox, you may set the "media.navigator.permissions.disabled" preference to true via about:config (and custom builds) to disable the permission prompt. This is intended for use by developers, similar to the case you describe above.

-Anant