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Did you know that work is being done to enable videoconferencing from HTML5 applications? Ian Hickson has been doing work on the
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Example usage:
The spec includes a way to work with Stream objects for the data coming from the device and to record Streams. It also includes an API for working with peer-to-peer connections, such as sendBitmap() or sendFile() to send data between a peer connection. The entire standard is still being baked but here is what a P2P connection might look like in pseudo-code:
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var serverConfig = ...; // configuration string obtained from server
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// contains details such as the IP address of a server that can speak some
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// protocol to help the client determine its public IP address, route packets
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// if necessary, etc.
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var local = new ConnectionPeer(serverConfig);
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local.getLocalConfiguration(function (configuration) {
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if (configuration != '') {
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...; // send configuration to other peer using out-of-band mechanism
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} else {
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// we've exhausted our options; wait for connection
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}
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});
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function ... (configuration) {
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// called whenever we get configuration information out-of-band
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local.addRemoteConfiguration(configuration);
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}
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local.onconnect = function (event) {
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// we are connected!
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local.sendText('Hello');
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local.addStream(...); // send video
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local.onstream = function (event) {
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// receive video
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// (videoElement is some <video> element)
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if (local.remoteStreams.length> 0)
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videoElement.src = local.remoteStreams[0].url;
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};
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};
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