1627913 - Implement getDisplayMedia({audio: true})

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1541425

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

The spec is really hand-wavy:

In the case of audio, the user agent MAY present the end-user with audio sources to share. Which choices are available to choose from is up to the user agent, and the audio source(s) are not necessarily the same as the video source(s). An audio source may be a particular application, window, browser, the entire system audio or any combination thereof. Unlike mediadevices.getUserMedia() with regards to audio+video, the user agent is allowed not to return audio even if the audio constraint is present. If the user agent knows no audio will be shared for the lifetime of the stream it MUST NOT include an audio track in the resulting stream. The user agent MAY accept a request for audio and video by only returning a video track in the resulting stream, or it MAY accept the request by returning both an audio track and a video track in the resulting stream. The user agent MUST reject audio-only requests.

We don't know what do do, and authors and users don't have real guarantees, so I guess we can do the following to maximize usefulness:

• On OSes where we support monitor device/loopback stream, we can offer device monitoring (we have the capability in cubeb for Pulse and WASAPI)
• We can offer an input stream for the page's output (this is implemented already)
• We might be able to offer the browser's output, but it's more complicated (we'd need to implement a browser-wide multi-process mixer)