- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:07:02 +1100
- To: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
- Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote: > On 2014-01-10 18:38, Martin Thomson wrote: >> On 10 January 2014 01:13, Stefan Håkansson LK >> <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote: >>> I may be wrong... >> :) >> >> I was planning to propose a change to the API that would necessitate >> an error on addStream. More on that later, it requires a better >> explanation than I want to hide on this thread. > > Looking forward to it (and I sort of hope it will be addTrack rather > than addStream)! Just be aware: there's already an onaddtrack event in HTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#handler-texttracklist-onaddtrack . Cheers, Silvia. > But, without going into details, the current discussion seems to evolve > around when the check of whether or not there are resources available to > actually transmit the tracks of the added stream or not is carried out > at addStream time, or later (createOffer); and how the application gets > to know about that a track can not be sent (is it at addStream, by an > event fired on the DooHickey, or by polling the stats API). > > I am fine with any way - but it is clear we need to agree. > > And I would argue that having that error at addStream is not that > helpful, because things can change later. Say you addStream, and then > add one more track to the MediaStream (this was really another argument > why we should addTrack rather than addStream to PeerConnection). Or say > you change resolution and framerate on a track being sent by working > with the Constraints of that track, and now the PeerConnection can't > handle it any more. And some people have been pointing out the CPU clock > may be lowered in frequency due to overheating at any time. > > Stefan >
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