Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Pixel 4XL Infrared sensor via getUserMedia

Paul Kinlan

It's turns out that you can access the pixel 4 face detection IR camera via normal getUserMedia. The interesting thing is that if you try to do face unlock when this camera is being used (the bit where it throws things on to your face) the system will just flat refuse to do any of the face unlock process and that makes sense. If you want to quickly try this then you can view the demo here.

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Screen Recorder: recording microphone and the desktop audio at the same time

Paul Kinlan

I have a goal of building the worlds simplest screen recording software and I've been slowly noodling around on the project for the last couple of months (I mean really slowly). In previous posts I had got the screen recording and a voice overlay by futzing about with the streams from all the input sources. One area of frustration though was that I could not work out how to get the audio from the desktop and overlay the audio from the speaker.

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Building a video editor on the web. Part 0.1 - Screencast

Paul Kinlan

You should be able to create and edit videos using just the web in the browser. It should be possible to provide a user-interface akin to Screenflow that lets you create an output video that combines multiple videos, images, and audio into one video that can be uploaded to services like YouTube. Following on from the my previous post that briefly describes the requirements of the video editor, in this post I just wanted to quickly show in a screencast how I built the web cam recorder, and also how how to build a screencast recorder :)

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Building a video editor on the web. Part 0.

Paul Kinlan

You should be able to create and edit videos using just the web in the browser. It should be possible to provide a user-interface akin to Screenflow that lets you create an output video that combines multiple videos, images, and audio into one video that can be uploaded to services like YouTube. This post is really just a statement of intent. I am going to start the long process of working out what is and isn't available on the platform and seeing how far we can get today.

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