Re: [Bug 23263] New: Add output device enumeration to GetSources

I don't think that it it's appropriate to consider silence as equivalent to
assent.

That said, I quite like this proposal. I do wonder exactly what you gain by
defining videoOut, other than a larger fingerprinting surface though.
Symmetry seems like a fairly useless property to seek.
On Sep 23, 2013 10:46 PM, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:

> This has been out for review for 6 days. People were supportive of it
> before, it does not seem to be controversial now.
>
> If it remains uncontroversial, we'll tell the editors to add it.
>
>        Harald
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> On 09/17/2013 03:55 PM, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:
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>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/**Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23263<https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23263>
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>>              Bug ID: 23263
>>             Summary: Add output device enumeration to GetSources
>>             Product: WebRTC Working Group
>>             Version: unspecified
>>            Hardware: All
>>                  OS: All
>>              Status: NEW
>>            Severity: normal
>>            Priority: P2
>>           Component: Media Capture and Streams
>>            Assignee: public-media-capture@w3.org
>>            Reporter: harald@alvestrand.no
>>                  CC: public-media-capture@w3.org
>>
>> This is the formalization of a proposal made on the mailing list on Sept
>> 9.
>>
>> Proposal: Add output devices to the GetSources call, and add a "group"
>> attribute for device grouping.
>>
>> Rules for attribute visibility should be as for GetSources.
>>
>> Example output:
>>
>> {
>>    { 1234, "video", "First camera", group=42},
>>    { 7654, "audio", "First camera microphone", group=42},
>>    { 2345, "audio", "Headset microphone", group=17},
>>    { 3697, "audioOut", "Headset speakers", group=17}
>> }
>>
>> Here, the headset microphone and speaker are part of the same device.
>>
>> WebIDL changes:
>>
>> - Change name of call to GetDevices
>> - Rename "SourceInfo" dictionary to "DeviceInfo"
>> - Add an attribute of type DOMString called "group"
>> - Add "audioOut" and "videoOut" as legal values for the "kind" attribute
>>
>>
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