RE: Cloning and sharing of MediaStreamTracks - worth it? from Jim Barnett on 2013-05-09 (public-media-capture@w3.org from May 2013)

From: Jim Barnett <Jim.Barnett@genesyslab.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 16:36:15 +0000
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
CC: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <57A15FAF9E58F841B2B1651FFE16D28103DCFA@GENSJZMBX02.msg.int.genesyslab.com>

But see Stefan's email; _everything_ is a source attribute except for 'enabled'.  I don't think that Track is doing much work.

- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:51 AM
To: Robert O'Callahan
Cc: Stefan Håkansson LK; Jim Barnett; Harald Alvestrand; public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: Re: Cloning and sharing of MediaStreamTracks - worth it?

On 9 May 2013 00:02, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> Having some attributes affect all tracks but others affect just one of 
> the clones sounds confusing. Maybe it would be simpler to prevent 
> cloning and share track objects when necessary.

Only if you consider the attributes to be track attributes, not source attributes.  Arguably, those attributes that affect all tracks should be moved to a source object.

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