Re: [whatwg] Media sink device selection on <audio>/<video>

Hmm; I wasn't thinking in terms of per-device, only per-origin and
per-browser/machine.
Seems like a conversation for public-media-capture?


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Ami Fischman <fischman@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> Do you mean to make this per-origin as well? (It will require storing
> >> that information per-origin forever, or until some invisible timeout.)
> >> That seems about as restrictive as one could make it, but is the API
> >> going to actually be useful in this state?
> >
> >
> > Sure, why not?
> > Canonical use-case: webrtc-using video-chat webapp allows the user to
> select
> > between speakers, wired headset, or bluetooth headset for its audio
> output;
> > the webapp already has gUM permission so now it can use
> getMediaDevices() to
> > enumerate output sinks and use the proposal here to route the remote
> audio
> > feed to the desired device.
>
> OK, so a site that has been given access to any device using
> getUserMedia can then enumerate all devices using getMediaDevices? I
> interpreted "devices to which the user has already granted access
> through getUserMedia" in the most restrictive (per-origin, per-device)
> way possible...
>
> Philip
>

Received on Monday, 13 January 2014 23:36:34 UTC