Should the spec define specific static audio output device IDs

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API to manage the rendering of audio on any audio output device

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Should the spec define specific static audio output device IDs #93

Open youennf opened 4 years ago

youennf commented 4 years ago

It might be useful to define specific values for audio output device IDs. Such values could be:

'default' or '', https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-output/issues/85
'earpiece' (and potentially 'speaker'), most useful for phones that have both a loudspeaker and an earpiece
'none': mute a whole page

bradisbell commented 4 years ago

As a web developer, it would be much better to see these as attributes of devices. It's a frustrating user experience today for media capture to show a user a list of microphones, three of which are potentially the same thing. It's unfortunate to have to carry that problem forward into new APIs.

guest271314 commented 4 years ago

Cannot the values from pacmd or pactl be used? Missing from the list is 'speech-dispatcher'.

carlsmith commented 3 years ago

DJ software needs to send different audio to the speakers and the headphones, and needs to know which is which.