FWIW, Facetime's current behavior, is to freeze the current camera image but maintain the microphone. It would be easy for us to do the same.
-Ekr On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 9:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As for the behaviour of backgrounding a real-time streaming video/audio > chatting app, my suggestion here would be "Stops the camera, but keeps the > Mic". It meets all your concerns about "privacy, resource releasing, and > power consuming". > > Yet it doesn't save as much resource or power as stopping both camera and > mic, but it sure saves more then holding those two. In most cases, users in > a realtime video chatting scenario are able to see both images of > themselves and the other. This ensures users what they are showing. Hiding > the app should stop the camera, otherwise we should still show the image of > users side. > > While the behaviour of mic should mimic answering a phone call, even a > feature phone can look up contacts while holding the call. > > Hope that this helps! > > Thanks, > Shelly > _______________________________________________ > dev-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media > _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
