Work with other groups to unify approaches to media streams

[tidoust]

Another comment from the TAG:

In general (and this is not solely an issue with TV Control), there is a problem with divergent approaches taken to media streams in w3c specifications. We would like to see some efforts to unify these. For TV Control specifically, we would suggest a liaison with the WebRTC WG, webaudio, audio source input/output. A liaison with TTML may also be useful. https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/issues/111#issuecomment-257746605

Checking the archives of the TV Control Community Group, I note that the CG got in touch with the WebRTC group back in June 2015 to wonder about buffering of streams before it created the TVMediaStream interface: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tvapi/2015Jun/0007.html

Note also some of the discussions the TV Control WG has had recently, e.g. around the overlap between the notion of media "zone" and the Audio Output Devices API: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tvcontrol/2016Oct/0019.html

[chrisn]

Some links to the specs and groups mentioned:

• Media Capture and Streams (WebRTC WG)
• MediaStream Recording
• Audio Output Devices API (Devices and Sensors WG)
• Web Audio API (Audio WG)
• Timed Text WG