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.

Documentation

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDpWqg9LcnuQ5TQDBK45BrbkyfuziolZ0m7Wmt6xPnU/edit?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-I0o3GayIn9Q-2LN7EB1l8w

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Internals>Media>Session

In development (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

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

Owner

• steimel@chromium.org

Intent to Prototype url

Last updated on 2021-04-12