Re: [mediacapture-main] What happens when laptop lid is closed / phone display is turned off? (#670)

Am not sure what "MBP" is.

The OS should not pause camera and microphone recording simply because the laptop lid is closed. 

The user could still want to transmit and receive data while the laptop lid is closed, for a variety of use cases, and this specification should not include language arbitrarily stop transmitting data just because the device lid is closed. 

A user could be recording multiple hours of video and audio and does not need to view the screen or listen to audio output - or allow a passerby to view or hear the process - to perform those tasks. 

> "Whenever the User Agent initiates such a [physical] change, it MUST queue a task, ... to... Fire a simple event named [mute] on track."

The User-Agent is the browser, not the machine itself or the OS. That appears to be an OS bug, not a problem with Media Capture and Streams.

Given the human MUST physically close the lid on the laptop, the user can physically execute `MediaStreamTrack.stop()` or `MediaStreamTrack.enabled = false` at their keyboard _before_ closing the lid on the device. 



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