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VideoEncoderConfig.contentHint

Category

Multimedia

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

In development (Chrome In development)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Adding a contentHint field to VideoEncoderConfig Content hint takes values that are already used for MediaStreamTrack: "motion", "text", "detail". This gives web developers a way to communicate to VideoEncoder the expected type video frames they intend to encode. Explainer: https://gist.github.com/Djuffin/c3742404b7c53ada227849c8b2b76b4c

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/webcodecs/#dom-videoencoderconfig-contenthint
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Support
• Web developers: Positive — RTC software vendors (including Google Meet) are interested in using it for screen sharing vs live cam scenarios.
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1493588

Docs: https://gist.github.com/Djuffin/c3742404b7c53ada227849c8b2b76b4c https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/912

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