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Media Capture from HTML Media Element (<video>/<audio>)

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 62)
Intent stage
None

Summary

“Media Capture from DOM Elements” document by W3C defines captureStream() method that allows the capture of a <video>/<audio> element in the form of a MediaStream. We want to implement the necessary Blink and Chromium sections that would create this stream by accessing the <video>/<audio> output according to the given play back constraints.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/capture-stream https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Streams_API

Samples: https://rawgit.com/Miguelao/demos/master/videoelementcapture.html

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