Re: MediaStream and <video>/<audio> assignment

This needs to be coordinated with the HTML MSE spec:

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/default/media-source/media-source.html

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>wrote:

> Hi,
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> The latest editors draft of getUserMedia still uses URL.createObjectURL
> to assign the content of a media stream to an HTML media element
> (<audio> and <video>):
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> http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#mediastreams-as-media-elements
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> My understanding is that we had converged towards instead use a new
> attribute on the HTMLMediaElement interface, srcObject, to which a
> MediaStream could be directly assigned.
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> Is that indeed the case (in which case I hope the editors draft can be
> updated to reflect this)? If not, I think this needs to be settled with
> relatively high priority since it's certainly one points where current
> implementations of getUserMedia diverges, and that any developer using
> the API is going to hit almost immediately.
>
> Practically speaking, while we could simply define a partial interface
> to add srcObject to HTMLMediaElement, it's likely something where we
> would want to coordinate with the HTML Working Group.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dom
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