Re: Mediacapture-fromelement: Does capturing a stream from a canvas make sense? from Martin Thomson on 2015-11-18 (public-media-capture@w3.org from November 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:41:14 -0800
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Cc: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnXLW2NHJYKR4TO7VHbOH_T1X09ksvSXr9Zdmdfru7h01Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 18 November 2015 at 08:10, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> Martin, do you remember why it was supposed to be a Good Thing to
> capture a stream rather than a track?

Well, I think that the best reason is that this becomes isomorphic
with HTMLMediaElement.captureStream() such that either canvas or video
can be used more or less interchangeably as the source of media.

Received on Wednesday, 18 November 2015 19:41:42 UTC