RE: Why does media capture require a browser?

One question is what spec it belongs in.  At first glance, it seems like a good fit for the takePhoto spec that Giri has proposed, but there are some subtleties. I think that the definition of taking a photo allows the system to reconfigure the camera and, possibly, delay the video stream.  We wouldn't want that to happen in this case - we just want a quick frame grab while the video keeps flowing. I don't know if that's a problem or not (I think Harald commented that cheap cameras might take a photo by just doing a frame grab).  

Anyhow, if people think that the frame grab doesn't belong in the photo spec (or that takePhoto shouldn't be a separate spec), I'll put it in the recording spec.

- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Leithead [mailto:travis.leithead@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:11 PM
To: Jonathan Chetwynd; Jim Barnett
Cc: Johannes Odland; Martin Thomson; public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: RE: Why does media capture require a browser?

> From: Jonathan Chetwynd [mailto:jay@peepo.com]
> 
> How do we get this implemented?
> 
> [...]
> 
> now, How do we get this implemented?

Getting it into the spec, building consensus on the spec, and advancing the spec toward REC is the best way to encourage implementations!

Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:21:05 UTC