Re: Coordination between MediaStream and MediaSource

+1 please

> On 7 Jun 2014, at 6:38 am, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The MediaStream interface is used to represent streams of media data, 
> typically (but not necessarily) of audio and/or video content.
> 
> The MediaSource object represents a source of media data for an 
> HTMLMediaElement.
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#stream-api
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/media-source.html#mediasource
> 
> While these sources have quite different properties -- one is populated by 
> the user agent from a user-defined source, e.g. a local camera, a stream 
> from a remote computer, or a static video file; the other is populated by 
> the script itself, providing data directly in the form of binary data -- 
> they nonetheless share a lot in common:
> 
> - they are both sources for use by <video> elements
> 
> - they both provide APIs for the management of tracks, merging them into 
>   a single object for presentation
> 
>> From the HTML spec's perspective, my intent is to treat MediaStream and
> MediaSource objects identically, allowing both where either is allowed. 
> 
> However, I would like to encourage the working groups to coordinate their 
> efforts so that these APIs are intuitive to authors, even in situations 
> where the author uses both. For example, it seems like it would make sense 
> to allow an audio source from a local microphone to be merged with video 
> data from an ArrayBufer, for output in a single <video> element. Or for 
> WebRTC to take data generated from mixing ArrayBuffers and send it to a 
> remote host as a stream.
> 
> Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help with this.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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