Re: Capture to CanvasRenderingContext2D (without DOM)

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:58:10 -0800
• To: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
• Cc: Johannes Odland <johannes.odland@gmail.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CABkgnnV4+QGcWSRxQo4Nebzkid-n2nGX-ogmRsgo+rc9Gu0N8w@mail.gmail.com>

On 11 February 2013 10:20, Travis Leithead
<travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> Has the possibility and benefits of creating a media sink outside the DOM
>>> been considered?
>
> Is there a specific motivation or use scenario for such a solution, or is
> this just hypothetical?

I would have thought this to be obvious.  If you wish to perform some
non-trivial processing or analysis of a MediaStreamTrack, the only
rational place to do this is on a Worker.  Doing in on the main thread
would have a less than good impact on the usability of the
application.

Received on Monday, 11 February 2013 19:58:37 UTC