User media selection

Hoisting to a new thread with a better title...

On 11/30/2011 9:35 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
 > On 11/29/2011 11:02 PM, Randell Jesup wrote:
 >>> We wrote some stuff up at
 >>> <https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/dmp> if someone is
 >>> interested.
 >>
 >> Yes, interesting. The alternative would be for the app to have a
 >> control/button/etc ("media") which re-opens the getUserMedia requester.
 >>
 >> Question: how should this this interact with Fullscreen mode in
 >> browsers? And also what about mobile, where people often want browsers
 >> to run virtually full-screened? (This closely mirrors the already-open
 >> question of how we provide an always-visibile indication that mics
 >> and/or cameras are active.) It should be possible, for example, for the
 >> app to invoke this requester as well.
 >
 > This is a difficult one (regardless of how getUserMedia is handled).
 > Should there be some visual (overlayed) indication?

As mentioned, we haven't specified how an implementation will let the user
know the camera/mic are active, but we need them to have that (and the
ability to mute or kill it).  Overlaying has issues unless we spec exactly
how and where it's overlaid (since the app writer need to know how to
avoid it), or have a way for the app writer to adapt to the actual overlay
(much more flexible, but tougher to get right by the app).

 > A means for the app to bring up the device selection pane sounds good to
 > me.
 >>
 >> How would it deal with multiple cameras/mics?
 >
 > That's touched upon in the UI walkthrough video where we have three
 > getUserMedia() requests and two cameras.
 > What could be discussed is an additional parameter to getUserMedia()
 > where the app could label the source.
 >>
 >> How does a user look up something in another tab while talking?
 >
 > This should work just fine. The other tab would not have the status view
 > (but the tab which has an ongoing audio/video session should have an
 > indicator that audio/video is being captured - but the full screen case
 > is difficult).

There was an implication of muting when not focused - true?  People have
said things assuming both muting on tab-switch and no muting on tab-switch.
FYI, I don't consider the color change on the tab to be sufficient or
discoverable enough by general users.

There's certainly a use-case for people to keep talking while the tab/window
is not focused ("let me look that up in Google Maps...").

 >>
 >> What happens if the user focuses another window?
 > ...or minimizes the browser. Should there be an indication in the system
 > tray?

Probably.  Also what if another window obscures the browser window or where
the indicator is?

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Randell Jesup
randell-ietf@jesup.org

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:01:32 UTC