ManagedMediaSource API

[marcoscaceres]

Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification

• Specification Title: ManagedMediaSource API
• Specification or proposal URL (if available): Proposal: ManagedMediaSource API w3c/media-source#320
• Explainer URL (if available): As above
• Caniuse.com URL (optional):
• Bugzilla URL (optional):
• Mozillians who can provide input (optional): @jan-ivar, @padenot, Randall Jessup

Other information

A “managed” MediaSource is one where more control over the MediaSource and its associated objects has been given over to the User Agent.

It's in WebKit and we'd love to hear Mozilla's position on it, and we would love any detailed feedback in the corresponding issue.

[padenot]

This is positive, for the reasons outlined in my post to the main issues. There are, of course, still discussions to have (e.g. around privacy, naming, level of leeway left to the UA), but the majority of the concepts presented can be implemented in a way that they would bring clear improvements to the platform.

As an aside, for media related things that are not related to WebRTC, @alastor0325 and myself are good first point of contact (but it's eventually routed to us at some point anyway).