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AnKing
AnKing

Reputation: 2184

Twilio video tracks differentiation

In my application i have a user that is simultaneously using two video tracks (screen sharing and a webcam). Firs when the user connects The webcam starts and then the screen sharing track gets added.

In the muddle of this session i need an ability to enable the user camera switching. I used this guide here to implement this feature: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/06/switching-cameras-twilio-video-chat.html

However when i do something like this:

const tracks = Array.from(localParticipant.videoTracks.values());
localParticipant.unpublishTracks(tracks);
localParticipant.publishTrack(localVideoTrack);

I unpublish both video tracks(screen sharing and camera) and only adding a camera track. Is there a way to add a property to the track(other than "kind") that will allow me to make this distinction? Because right now the only way i can do it is tracking if the user has screen sharing enabled and re-connect both tracks in this case.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 760

Answers (1)

philnash
philnash

Reputation: 73065

Twilio developer evangelist here.

All Tracks within Twilio Video have a name property which is the track ID by default. However, you can set the name of the track when you create or publish it.

For example:

localParticipant.publishTrack(localVideoTrack, { name: "camera" }

You can then read the name from the LocalTrack or RemoteTrack object later.

Let me know if that helps.

Upvotes: 3

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