Re: [whatwg] Enabling/disabling tracks in MediaStreams

2011-07-20 Thread ᛏᚮᛘᛘᚤ
Thanks for the explanation. To me this sounds overly complicated, why not just make it so that an disable of a track will override the track settings for forked MediaStreams? This will definitely simplify implementation, and confuse web developers less imho. MSTracks coming and going doesn't feel

[whatwg] Enabling/disabling tracks in MediaStreams

2011-07-18 Thread ᛏᚮᛘᛘᚤ
I am very confused regarding the below paragraph from the latest spec: When a track in a MediaStreamhttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication.html#mediastream parent is disabled, any

Re: [whatwg] Enabling/disabling tracks in MediaStreams

2011-07-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Additional question: What is the scenario in which this behavioiur is useful? On 07/18/11 14:17, Tommy Widenflycht (ᛏᚮᛘᛘᚤ) wrote: I am very confused regarding the below paragraph from the latest spec: When a track in a

Re: [whatwg] Enabling/disabling tracks in MediaStreams

2011-07-18 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 7/18/11 5:29 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Additional question: What is the scenario in which this behavioiur is useful? One use case is to selectively disable the video track in an ongoing audio/video session without disrupting audio in reaction to a congested network. -Anant

Re: [whatwg] Enabling/disabling tracks in MediaStreams

2011-07-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Tommy Widenflycht (�~[~O�~Z��~[~X�~[~X�~Z�) wrote: I am very confused regarding the below paragraph from the latest spec: When a track in a MediaStream parent is disabled, any MediaStreamTrack objects corresponding to the tracks in any MediaStream objects that were