Re: [rtcweb] Separating stream manipulation from the SDP loudness (Re: Proposed Plan for Usage of SDP and RTP)

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 03/10/2013 06:02 AM, Peter Thatcher wrote:
>
> There's a difference between the resolution that you open the camera 
> at and the resolution you send over the network at.  Does the current 
> constraints API let you capture at one resolution and send at 
> another?  Also, does it let you change the send resolution on the fly?
>
Peter, you were in Boston, where we spent quite a bit of time on this 
very topic.

The relevant presentation is 
http://www.w3.org/wiki/images/f/fd/Constraints20130406.pdf.

Dan has promised to have the consensus of the discussion represented in 
the Media Capture and Streams spec well before the Media Capture and 
Streams meeting that we're currently scheduling for 2 weeks after the 
IETF (Doodle poll at http://doodle.com/xd7ffpidh6mgn2m8 )


> These are important controls that, as far as I know, are not currently 
> supplied to the application.  They could potentially be supplied by 
> SDP, new methods, or as you suggest, perhaps even as some kind of 
> constraint.  But I don't think they are currently provided.
>

But we DO have a W3C consensus on which approach to take in providing them.