[rtcweb] Sample implementation of screensharing (Re: Call for Consensus on Use Case for Screen/Application/Desktop sharing)

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

For your info / full disclosure / shameless plug:

Today's announcement of "Google+ Hangouts with Extras" includes an 
implementation of window sharing, which indeed encodes a window as a 
video stream and sends it over the network.

Here's the help page:

http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1257349&topic=1651691 
<http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1257349&topic=1651691>

So we know that we can make one design approach work in our browser 
plugin....

               Harald

On 09/19/2011 09:02 AM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> WG,
>
> There where some discussion in the Interim meeting last week about a
> Screen/Application/Desktop sharing support use case. My take away from
> the discussion is that this use cases is likely well enough understood
> to actually start a consensus call now. However, to us WG chairs it was
> clear that the use case in question actually needs to be split into two
> parts.
>
> A) Where the RTCWEB enabled browser can use a local application window,
> the whole desktop or a Screen as a media source that can be encoded and
> transported over the peerConnection for displaying/playback at the peer.
>
> B) Where a remote peer can provide one or more input types such as mouse
> and keyboard to control the local system, not only including the
> browser, but also other operating system resources. This clearly can
> only happen after additional consent, most likely on a per occasion
> consent.
>
> My interpretation is that A only allows for application sharing in
> conferencing contexts, like in the WEBEX session the Interim meeting was
> held with where we shared slides. Where the combination of A and B is
> providing for VNC/Remote desktop.
>
> Thus the question to the WG is the following.
>
> 1) Do you support or object the inclusion of use case A, B or Both in
> our Use case document?
>
> 2) Do you have additional comments for or against either of the use cases?
>
>
> As WG chair
>
> Magnus Westerlund
>
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