Re: getThisTabMedia from Philipp Hancke on 2020-10-02 (public-webrtc@w3.org from October 2020)

From: Philipp Hancke <fippo@goodadvice.pages.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:51:36 +0200
To: public-webrtc@w3.org
Message-ID: <806f56ae-22c3-5b5f-2050-e0d35d13f5d0@goodadvice.pages.de>

Am 02.10.20 um 16:35 schrieb Elad Alon:
> Hello all,
> 
> We're proposing an API that would be very similar to
> navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-capture/#dom-mediadevices-getdisplaymedia>,
> but which only will be able to initiate capturing of the tab from which it
> is called (rather than provide the much wider selection of share-sources
> that getDisplayMedia has).
[...]

+1 apart from the name.

This is quite useful for use-cases like the one described in
   https://webrtchacks.com/jitsi-recording-getdisplaymedia-audio/

How are you planning to handle audio output (which is well-supported 
cross-platform in chrome tabs iirc)?

Received on Friday, 2 October 2020 14:51:59 UTC