[whatwg] need a way to set output format from StreamRecorder

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:01:40 +0100, Per-Erik Brodin  
<per-erik.brodin at ericsson.com> wrote:
> A Stream can be treated as an abstract representation of a media stream.  
> When a Stream is to be transported over a peer-to-peer connection, the  
> format can be negotiated between the peers. In the current  
> ConnectionPeer API, such format negotiation would be transparent to the  
> API. If we would specify a single resolution for video, for example,  
> that resolution may be to high for some mobile devices to encode in  
> real-time. A mismatch in supported formats is just one reason why a  
> peer-to-peer transport may fail, but that doesn't mean that the peers  
> can't communicate. When relaying through a server you can interoperate  
> with anything.

Via a server, maybe, if the author took care of having a transcoder there.  
Ideally P2P is without such an intermediary. And although authors can  
exclude parties now by using proprietary plug-ins, I am not convinced we  
should make that an intrinsic part of the web. Not finding a codec /  
simply using VP8 will make that a reality however.


> If you are referring to sendFile(file) on ConnectionPeer, the file may  
> just as well come from the user's hard drive via <input type=file> and  
> thus it will be up to the application to ensure that whatever is sent to  
> the other peer is usable there.

That is quite a different scenario from exchanging a live media feed.


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