Media Session API: Video conferencing actions

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: In development (Chrome In development)
Intent stage: Start prototyping

Summary

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.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/mediasession/
Firefox: No signal
Safari: Positive — Interested in WebRTC and hangup use cases
Web developers: Positive — Same as Apple (see above), we received feedback from web developers that they would be interested to handle WebRTC sessions via Media Session.
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1178939

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

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

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/mediasession/issues/264

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