Re: MediaStreams and canPlayType from Silvia Pfeiffer on 2014-10-18 (public-media-capture@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:51:20 +1100
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAHp8n2==PRsfyDhhd+-CSqru97d-K2+dBqdYeKZ8RKnBQRON7w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 October 2014 04:56, Stefan Håkansson LK
> <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote:
>> Yes, and I was only talking about the media-element.canPlayType, nothing
>> on MediaStream(Track).
>
> The moral equivalent of canPlayType is encapsulated in the
> RTCPeerConnection API.  You can elicit this information (if you really
> care) by creating an offer.

It's in the SDP which isn't an API surface in HTML (despite developers
having to use it as such right now). I'm assuming in ORTC it is
explicitly exposed? (Not that I have checked, because I don't really
know ORTC yet.)

Silvia.

Received on Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:52:07 UTC