I take it this would include also recording (as a special case of handling a stream) ?
-Sivan On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Juho Hämäläinen <juho.hamalai...@tieto.com>wrote: > Hello, > > tl;dr; deny audio playback for unclassified apps/streams after next Mer > release. > > Currently policy framework starts to be in usable state and that means > (audio/video) resource policy manager is functional as well. With the > upcoming Mer release qt-mobility's resource policy integration is also > enabled. > > Since resource policy works it is in the best interest of all that all > audio/video applications behave as nice resource-using citizens. That means > all audio/video applications should request resources and use resources > only when they are granted. When there is higher priority application > running all other apps get notification of resource use and can pause their > playback, continue when resources are available, etc. all in all everything > plays together more nicely. > > I'm suggesting that playback is denied for unclassified streams or apps > that don't request audio resources or aren't otherwise known to resource > policy manager. That way it's easy to detect apps that don't implement > resource handling and again they can be fixed. It effectively means that > unclassified streams are corked and muted. > > Known apps that do not work with the change: > - Music Player (qmlmusicplayer) > > Info about audio and how to work with resource policy in wiki: > https://wiki.merproject.org/**wiki/Nemo/Audio<https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo/Audio> > > This change would happen after next Mer release with updated qt-mobility > if there are no objections. > > -- > juho > > > -- -Sivan
