Re: In defense of AddStream

Sorry, when I said "grouping mechanism", I meant that the grouping was for
the purposes of synchronization.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 15 November 2013 15:42, Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com> wrote:
> > I agree this is the only argument in favor of MediaStreams. Making
> > MediaStreams a lightweight grouping mechanism, as proposed, allows
> > MediaStream to be useful for this one purpose, and not get in the way
> > everywhere else.
>
> If MediaStream were just a grouping construct, then I'd be arguing for
> the feature to be jettisoned, but this synchronization thing that they
> do is pretty useful.  Especially when you talk about multi-screen,
> multi-camera setups where synchronization is required between
> different renderings.  For single-audio, single-video, you could rely
> on <video> as the point for synchronization grouping.
>