- From: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 06:29:59 +0000
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- CC: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On 17/10/14 21:53, Martin Thomson 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.
This is where I personally end up too. But I think we should add a note
or a sentence saying that "media-element.canPlayType can not be used to
determine if a MediaStream can be played or not" to help web authors.
I found a site that uses
document.createElement("video").canPlayType('video/webm; codecs="vp8",
vorbis')
to determine if the browser is compatible with their service. Somewhere
we should document that this is not the right way.
Received on Sunday, 19 October 2014 06:31:04 UTC