The vast majority of WebRTC streams include a camera. We have a lot of posts about controlling those streams, but what about controlling the camera itself? I was working on a project where I was looking at lighting correction. Serendipitously, I noticed a new “control exposure” demo in the official WebR TC GitHub samples that Fippo just merged. Sebastian Schmid gives some intro to what exactly exposure is from the photography world.
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MotivationWhat is exposure?Why can we do better than the camera’s default (Auto-Exposure)?Real-world use casesWhat about post-processing?More user control! But how?W3C JavaScript Approach: MediaStreamTrack Device CapabilitiesNative Approach: USB Video Class (UVC)Outlook: What about AI?Your Input?Sort: