Re: Capturing streams from DOM nodes: open issues

On 15 May 2014 08:04, Jim Barnett <1jhbarnett@gmail.com> wrote:
> So we would want a "skip dead air" property that could be set on the
> MediaRecorder to cause it to stop recording when the stream stops providing
> media.   Right now, the spec says that MediaRecorder records whatever the
> stream provides.  So if the stream provides nothing at all, I don't think
> anything would get recorded (but the spec should say so explicitly.)  If the
> stream provides black frames  or silence that would get recorded.   Would we
> treat black frames or silence as dead air? (When recording audio, some of
> the silence is necessary for intelligibility.)  I think the spec needs some
> careful clarification here.

I think that much of the time, the dead air would be explicitly known.
 There are cases where it is not, but those should be the pathological
ones.

Received on Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:09:44 UTC