Re: [rtcweb] Screen sharing

Henry Sinnreich <henry.sinnreich@gmail.com> Fri, 02 December 2011 00:31 UTC

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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:31:34 -0600
From: Henry Sinnreich <henry.sinnreich@gmail.com>
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Can remote meeting attendees read the print on say a legal document under
discussion?

If yes for commercial grade quality (I still have doubts), how is the codec
tweaking enabled via the API?

Thanks, Henry


On 12/1/11 5:05 PM, "Aron Rosenberg" <arosenberg@logitech.com> wrote:

> Screen sharing works great over H.264 or VP8 for us. You have to tweak the
> codec encoding parameters and FPS a bit, but you get great quality even on
> text.
> 
> Aron Rosenberg
> LifeSize, a division of Logitech
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Henry Sinnreich <henry.sinnreich@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>> 
>> Video sucks for screen sharing, displaying documents or even plain bullet
>> slides.
>> Displaying the screen and documents is in a completely other league IMO.
>> 
>> Thanks, Henry
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/1/11 9:19 AM, "Stefan Håkansson LK" <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> > Related to use-case 4.2.7 "Simple Video Communication Service with
>>> > sharing"
>>> > 
>>> 
(<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requiremen>>>
ts
>>> > /?include_text=1>)
>>> > we had a student experimenting a bit.
>>> >
>>> > Essentially, the screen was treated as another video source (just as a
>>> > camera), and was transmitted to the other end as a MediaStream over a
>>> > PeerConnection.
>>> >
>>> > The implementation of getUserMedia allowed the screen to be selected as
>>> > a video source.
>>> >
>>> > Perhaps this could be a way forward for meeting this use-case? And
>>> > perhaps "screen" should be defined as a valid options argument to
>>> > getUserMedia?
>>> >
>>> > (there is some more info about what the student did at
>>> > <https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/screen-sharing>)
>>> >
>>> > Stefan
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