MediaTrackSupportedConstraints.backgroundBlur

[marcoscaceres]

Request for position on an emerging web specification

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• WebKittens who can provide input: @youennf

Information about the spec

• Spec Title: Media Capture and Streams Extensions
• Spec URL: https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-extensions/#exposing-mediastreamtrack-source-background-blur-support
• GitHub repository:
• Issue Tracker (if not the repository's issue tracker):
• Explainer (if not README.md in the repository): https://github.com/riju/backgroundBlur/blob/main/explainer.md

Design reviews and vendor positions

• TAG Design Review:
• Mozilla standards-positions issue:

Bugs tracking this feature

• WebKit Bugzilla:
• Radar:

Anything else we need to know

On WebKit-dev, @riju wrote:

This is a request for WebKit's position on adding support for Background Blur API on MediaStreamTrack.

The PR that introduced this behavior to the medicapture-extensions spec and the explainer was co-authored by
Apple engineer Youenn Fablet and approved by Jan-Ivar Bruaroey (Mozilla).

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5077577782263808

WebRTC meeting minutes:
https://www.w3.org/2022/05/17-webrtc-minutes.html#t07

Thanks,
Riju.

[hober]

@youennf @jernoble @eric-carlson, thoughts?

[youennf]

I think we are supportive, this allows exposing OS supported features in a flexible enough way to cope with OS differences. I suggest we label this as "position: support" 7 days from now.

[hober]

Closing as we've identified our position.