Re: WICG Proposal: A frame-level event logging API for media

That's interesting but for video, we might consider a way to access SMPTE timecodes too.

> On Oct 28, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
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> I've just submitted the following proposal to the WICG:
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> https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-a-frame-level-event-logging-mechanism-for-webrtc/1780/1
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> The chairs of WEBRTC felt that this was not appropriate work to add to this WG at a time when we're trying to finish up our current document set, but it might be of interest to participants in this group.
> Copied from the text there:
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> Problem
> Some projects using WebRTC functionality have indicated that they need to record data on "source to screen" performance - that is,       information about how much time it takes between some event (typically frame capture) occurs in "real life" on the media-generating side and the serving of the same event to the user on the media-consuming side.
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> Approach
> I've sketched out an approach in this repo:
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> https://github.com/alvestrand/webrtc-framelog/
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> It consists of a mechanism to tell the media engine to note the times certain events happen to a frame, and a way to get these notes back to JS. It's intended to be predictable and not too resource intensive.
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> Comments are welcome; guidance to the WICG process as well - this is my first attempt to use this forum for an API proposal.
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