Re: [mediacapture-screen-share] Option to exclude cursor from video stream

I think that we need a whole new spec for receiving mouse movements.

The removal of the cursor is entirely reasonable.  Please propose a
new constraint name, or better yet, a PR.

On 16 January 2016 at 05:00, Mathieu Hofman via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org> wrote:
> mhofman has just created a new issue for
> https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-screen-share:
>
> == Option to exclude cursor from video stream ==
> Opening spec issue based on [Chrome issue
> 463423](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463423).
>
> Some applications might want to receive a video stream of the screen
> share that doesn't include the cursor.
> I believe adding a constraint for this would be an easy way to provide
>  this feature.
>
> Where things get trickier is that such applications might want to
> receive the cursor position programatically instead. This would
> require extending the `MediaStreamTrack` object to dispatch events
> about the cursor position.
> Furthermore, applications would also want to get the cursor image,
> which is tricky since not all cursors are simple bitmaps that are
> alpha blended, some are xoring their background (text selection cursor
>  on windows is the main example)
>
> In #35 I'm already suggesting extending the `MediaStreamTrack` object
> to expose a "pixel ratio" attribute of the stream. I'm open to
> alternatives but it sounds like we need a consistent way to expose
> "metadata" about the screen sharing stream.
>
> Please view or discuss this issue at
> https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-screen-share/issues/38 using your
> GitHub account
>

Received on Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:09:34 UTC