Adds "togglemicrophone", "toggle camera", and "hangup" actions to the existing Media Session API. This will enable developers of video conferencing websites to handle these actions from browser UI. For example, if the user puts their video call into a picture-in-picture window, the browser could display buttons for mute/unmute, turnon/turnoff camera, and hang up. When the user clicks these, the website handles them through the Media Session API.

Motivation

This will enable developers of video conferencing websites to handle these actions from browser UI. For example, if the user puts their video call into a picture-in-picture window, the browser could display buttons for mute/unmute, turnon/turnoff camera, and hang up. When the user clicks these, the website handles them through the Media Session API.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-session/video-conferencing.html

Documentation

• https://web.dev/media-session/#video-conferencing-actions
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDpWqg9LcnuQ5TQDBK45BrbkyfuziolZ0m7Wmt6xPnU/edit?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-I0o3GayIn9Q-2LN7EB1l8w

Specification

Specification link

Status: Unknown standards status - check spec link for status

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Internals>Media>Session

Implementation status: In development (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Positive
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• steimel@chromium.org

Intent to Prototype url

Last updated on 2021-11-03