RE: Why does media capture require a browser?

Will take a stab at it. I have to put out a revision anyways.
-Giri

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no] 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:07 AM
To: public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: Re: Why does media capture require a browser?

On 02/20/2013 10:20 PM, Jim Barnett wrote:
> 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).
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> 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.

If Giri's OK with integrating it in the photo spec for now, I think the next step is generating a specific proposal for text. The functionality seems like something people want, and if we're agreed that it's possible to design this without blocking anything else, I'm happy to see proposals.

Once we get to meeting time, we'll allocate time to what we deem most important first, of course, but time on mailing lists is a nebulous concept anyway :-)

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