Re: An alternate approach to enumerating devices

On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> wrote:

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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
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>> On 03/26/2013 09:14 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
>>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
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>>>>> 2) facing is too limited. I want just a camera adescription enum that includes front and back but also has left, right, center
>>>> Again orthogonal to the proposed change, the enum isn't in the current media spec (I guess that's a bug), but once it lands, we can propose changes to it.
>>>> (I don't want to slip too far down this slippery slope - what about up/down, north/south/east/west, and points inbetween?)
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>>> The things that with multiple cameras that are widely deployed today are:
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>>> 1) front , back tablets / phones
>>> 2) left right 2 screen room systems
>>> 3) left, right, center, 3 screen rooms systems
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>>> Are you OK with supporting theses three cases ?
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>> I fear the CLUE slippery slope here.... when you say "left", "right" and "center", do you imagine 3 cameras in a row beside each other, all facing the same way?
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> Yes, pointing roughly the same direction
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>> I've got a bit of trouble seeing the "front, left" combination being asked for - are these different constraints?
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> No - a camera can be front for left but not both 

sorry - typo in that meant "front or left" not "for"

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