Re: Cross-entity mediastreams (Re: removing createObjectURL)

On 2013-09-11 14:31, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Changing the subject, since this is not about createObjectURL any more..
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> On 09/10/2013 06:47 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
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>> If you want to invent new mechanisms, another way of thinking of this
>> would be to create an RTCSelfConnection that worked like
>> RTCPeerConnection.  You could instantiate one in each window and pipe
>> the output from window to another.
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> In fact you can already do that today with a regular PeerConnection
> (albeit with a somewhat inefficient coupling mechanism: encode/decode
> and UDP over the local interface). If it turns out to be an often needed
> use case, it should be easy to define rules that allow the UA to
> discover that it's in a special-case state and can use more efficient
> transfer mechanisms.

I was thinking the same, but OTOH postMessage is already available in 
the web toolbox and we would "just" have to define how a MediaStream is 
either "structurally cloned" (which is what Adam proposed IIUC) or 
transferred.

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