Re: Proposal for output device selection

This sounds really useful.

As suggested, output device selection would be handy for video as well as
audio.

For example:
- video stream from one WebRTC call participant directed to one display,
another to another
- screencast of an app demo to one display, screencast of a presentation to
another
- output video from CCTV (or cameras at an event) to multiple displays

Would there ever be a situation where it might be desirable to direct
output of a single video or audio element to multiple devices, i.e. have
more than sinkId for a single audio or video element? For example: direct
output from one input stream to displays 1 and 2, and from another input to
displays 3 and 4.

Also (pedantic): is there a rationale for choosing properties (like sinkId
here) over get/set methods such as MediaStream getVideoTracks()?

Sam


On 13 August 2013 09:09, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:

> Le mardi 13 août 2013 à 06:50 +0000, Stefan Håkansson LK a écrit :
> > But I would really like to get comments from people involved in the
> > html5 and media elements work.
>
> This also has strong links with the Audio API model; there seems to have
> been already some related discussion there:
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21345
>
> (this need was actually one of the topics we highlighted to the Audio WG
> back in TPAC 2011:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012JanMar/0056.html )
>
> So +1 in general for addressing that requirement, but also big +1 in
> coordinating with both the HTML Working Group Media Task Force and the
> Audio Working Group on this.
>
> Dom
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