When is the target date to getUserMedia ready in Firefox?

tom

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Jun 10, 2012, 10:08:37 PM6/10/12

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AFAIK, Chrome/Webkit, Opera has made webRTC working somehow.
When can we demo getUserMedia in Firefox? thx.

Best regards
Tom

Jared Wein

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Jun 10, 2012, 10:18:00 PM6/10/12

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "tom" <zs68...@gmail.com>
> Subject: When is the target date to getUserMedia ready in Firefox?
>
> AFAIK, Chrome/Webkit, Opera has made webRTC working somehow.
> When can we demo getUserMedia in Firefox? thx.
>

Including Maire as she probably has a good idea of a timeline.

You can also see a demo at Paul Rouget's website: http://paulrouget.com/e/getUserMedia/

Hope that helps,
Jared

Maire Reavy

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Jun 11, 2012, 5:48:01 AM6/11/12

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We're targeting having this finished and landed within the next 2 weeks.

First we will land the core code of webrtc.org (we're targeting landing
that this week and we'll wait several days to make sure that everything
is happy) and then we should be able to land getUserMedia for desktop.

We will not have the UI (asking the user if he wants to allow permission
to turn on his camera, telling the user that the camera is live, etc)
when we land this. We are working to get the UI added as soon as
possible (I'm pushing to get the UI targeted for Firefox 16). Without
the UI, we will probably not enable this by default for a release, but
that should be acceptable for a demo. Please tell me if you disagree.
Chrome Canary did something similar when it first added getUserMedia
(i.e. the feature was disabled by default until the UI was added.)

All the code that I'm talking about above is for desktop Firefox.

I'm hoping getUserMedia on Android will also happen in the Firefox 16
time frame, but that's still being decided.

Cheers,
-Maire

--
Maire Reavy<mre...@mozilla.com>
Mozilla

tom

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Jun 11, 2012, 8:11:36 AM6/11/12

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Hi Maire:

Thank you to share the Good news.
And, Would firefox mobile/ fennec support getUserMedia before Olympic Games
London?

Best regards
Tom

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Maire Reavy <mre...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 6/10/2012 10:18 PM, Jared Wein wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> From: "tom"<zs68...@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: When is the target date to getUserMedia ready in Firefox?
>>>
>>> AFAIK, Chrome/Webkit, Opera has made webRTC working somehow.
>>> When can we demo getUserMedia in Firefox? thx.
>>>
>>> Including Maire as she probably has a good idea of a timeline.
>>
>> You can also see a demo at Paul Rouget's website:

>> http://paulrouget.com/e/**getUserMedia/<http://paulrouget.com/e/getUserMedia/>

Maire Reavy

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Jun 11, 2012, 8:45:13 AM6/11/12

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On 6/11/2012 8:11 AM, tom wrote:
> Hi Maire:
>
> Thank you to share the Good news.
> And, Would firefox mobile/ fennec support getUserMedia before Olympic
> Games London?

That is what I will be pushing for! There is currently no agreed-to
target date yet for adding getUserMedia support to Android, but I expect
we'll have one soon.

Cheers,
-Maire

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Maire Reavy <mre...@mozilla.com
> <mailto:mre...@mozilla.com>> wrote:
>
> On 6/10/2012 10:18 PM, Jared Wein wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>

> From: "tom"<zs68...@gmail.com <mailto:zs68...@gmail.com>>
> Subject: When is the target date to getUserMedia ready in
> Firefox?
>
> AFAIK, Chrome/Webkit, Opera has made webRTC working somehow.
> When can we demo getUserMedia in Firefox? thx.
>
> Including Maire as she probably has a good idea of a timeline.
>
> You can also see a demo at Paul Rouget's website:

> http://paulrouget.com/e/getUserMedia/
>
>
> We're targeting having this finished and landed within the next 2
> weeks.
>

> First we will land the core code of webrtc.org <http://webrtc.org>

> (we're targeting landing that this week and we'll wait several
> days to make sure that everything is happy) and then we should be
> able to land getUserMedia for desktop.
>
> We will not have the UI (asking the user if he wants to allow
> permission to turn on his camera, telling the user that the camera
> is live, etc) when we land this. We are working to get the UI
> added as soon as possible (I'm pushing to get the UI targeted for
> Firefox 16). Without the UI, we will probably not enable this by
> default for a release, but that should be acceptable for a demo.
> Please tell me if you disagree. Chrome Canary did something
> similar when it first added getUserMedia (i.e. the feature was
> disabled by default until the UI was added.)
>
> All the code that I'm talking about above is for desktop Firefox.
>
> I'm hoping getUserMedia on Android will also happen in the Firefox
> 16 time frame, but that's still being decided.
>
> Cheers,
> -Maire
>
> --

> Maire Reavy<mre...@mozilla.com <mailto:mre...@mozilla.com>>
> Mozilla

Ron Hunter

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Jun 11, 2012, 9:22:15 AM6/11/12

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RE: Turning on webcam remotely.
I trust adequate security will be included. Frankly, the idea that
someone can turn on my computer, or smartphone camera without my
permission, and knowledge from another location is far from comforting.
If it can be done, someone will figure out how to do it without my
permission, so no cameras are connected to my computers.
Anyone who wants a picture of my ceiling, or the inside of my shirt
pocket is welcome.

Gijs Kruitbosch

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Jun 17, 2012, 10:44:34 AM6/17/12

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On 11/06/2012 11:48 AM, Maire Reavy wrote:
> On 6/10/2012 10:18 PM, Jared Wein wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "tom"<zs68...@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: When is the target date to getUserMedia ready in Firefox?
>>>
>>> AFAIK, Chrome/Webkit, Opera has made webRTC working somehow.
>>> When can we demo getUserMedia in Firefox? thx.
>>>
>> Including Maire as she probably has a good idea of a timeline.
>>
>> You can also see a demo at Paul Rouget's website:
>> http://paulrouget.com/e/getUserMedia/
>
> We're targeting having this finished and landed within the next 2 weeks.
>
> First we will land the core code of webrtc.org (we're targeting landing that
> this week and we'll wait several days to make sure that everything is happy) and
> then we should be able to land getUserMedia for desktop.
>

Will this include audio access / passing stuff to the Audio Data API? If not, is
there a schedule for this as well? I was looking around the web today for info
about this and found everyone using getUserMedia is doing video-only demoes, and
Chrome and Opera apparently don't implement any kind of audio access. :-(

~ Gijs