[Bug 21846] Need a way to represent muting (part of) a call

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21846


Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Depends on|                            |24936
             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED




--- Comment #2 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>  2009-11-05 03:44:48 PST ---
Maemo 5's interface just has a single boolean, "am I muting the call?".
However, Sjoerd suggests that what we actually want (particularly for Muji) is
a mute flag per content (so in practice, audio and video, where "muting video"
means sending no frames, or sending black frames, or something).

We briefly discussed the possibility of protocols existing where you could stop
sending your audio to particular people, e.g. if I'm in a call with Sjoerd and
Will, I could stop sending audio to Will but continue talking to Sjoerd.

However, the only use-case we could see for this is complaining about Will
behind his back; as well as being somewhat antisocial, this wouldn't actually
work very well, because Sjoerd will still be sending audio to Will, and if
Sjoerd's microphone picks up his speakers a little bit (in practice, it will),
Will can still hear what I'm saying about him. Also, making a user interface
for muting streams to individual contacts doesn't sound very plausible.

There doesn't seem to be much point in adding this to StreamedMedia when
Sjoerd's Call API (Bug #24936) is just round the corner, so we'll fix this in
the Call channel type.


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