Media/getUserMedia

getUserMedia Implementation Roadmap

Goal

• Implement the getUserMedia specification on 3 platforms: Desktop, Android and B2G.

• Includes the following uses of getUserMedia:

  getUserMedia({picture:true}, onsuccess(Blob blob), onerror);
  getUserMedia({video:true,audio:true}, onsuccess(MediaStream stream), onerror);
  video.src = stream;
  audio.src = stream;

• Appropriate permission, notification and status UIs.

Phase 1

• Implement image capture {picture:true} API
  • Android: bug 738528 [Anant]
  • B2G: bug 749886 [Fabrice]

• Define common abstraction "MediaEngine" for device access across multiple platforms.
  • Cross-platform: bug 750943 [Suhas/Anant]
    • (crypt's version in bug 739566)

• Define "chrome" extensions to MediaStreams for privileged JS code (and B2G's) use. This includes CameraControl features (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/CameraControl).
  • Cross-platform: bug 752352 [Fabrice/Anant?]

• Implement a fallback backend for MediaEngine (when hardware support not available, returnMediaStream with white noise, for example).
  • Cross-platform: bug 752351 [???]

• Write DOM bindings for getUserMedia (backed with Fallback MediaEngine).
  • Cross-platform: bug 752353 [Anant]
    • (split code from bug 691234 into this one)

Phase 2

• Implement MediaEngine backends:
  • Android: bug ??? (either based on Android NDK/SDK, or, webrtc.org code).
  • B2G: bug ??? [Fabrice] (based on Gonk).
  • Desktop: bug 691234 [Anant] (based on webrtc.org code).

• Implement image capture {picture:true} API
  • Desktop: bug 749887 [???]
    • (bug 692955 tracking <input> on Desktop, reuse possible. bug 748835 tracking UI).

Phase 3

• Implement permissions, notification & status UI
  • Android: bug 749881
  • B2G: bug 749882
  • Desktop: bug 729522 and bug 748835 -- since the camera/mic UI for WebRTC and Camera API are becoming almost the same, these bugs may now be duplicates [???]

Once UI lands, getUserMedia may be pref'ed on.

Phase 4 and beyond

• Implement file backend for MediaEngine.
• Refactor getUserMedia{picture:true} implementations to use MediaEngine + privileged MediaStreams and CameraControl APIs.