Re: [Bug 25786] New: Best practice to allow file for audio / video device

On 05/18/2014 04:11 PM, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25786
>
>             Bug ID: 25786
>            Summary: Best practice to allow file for audio / video device
>            Product: WebRTC Working Group
>            Version: unspecified
>           Hardware: PC
>                 OS: All
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P2
>          Component: Media Capture and Streams
>           Assignee: public-media-capture@w3.org
>           Reporter: fluffy@cisco.com
>                 CC: public-media-capture@w3.org
>
> This is not really very useful to most users in most cases and and very hard to
> implement. Are there multiple files for different tracks? what happens if
> different length? and so on. 
>
> I think we should remove the suggestion that browser should do this as a best
> practice and instead just say they may do this.
>
We may want to remove all mention of sourcing media from files.

There are a number of use cases where it is useful, but if we add the
ability to source streams from a <video> element, the ability to source
from files (and everything else that feeds a <video> element) comes
along for free; just play the file in the <video> element, and capture
it to a stream.

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Received on Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:21:05 UTC