localTrackStarted

Emitted when startAudio() startVideo() or startScreenSharing() method is called

This event is emitted when any of the following methods are called:

• startAudio()
• startVideo()
• startScreenSharing()

JavaScript

meeting.on("localTrackStarted", function(localTrackItem) {

});

Properties

localTrackItem is an object that contain the following properties

Property	Description	Type
type	type can be audio or video	string
streamId	unique streamId associated with the stream.	string
track	MediaStreamTrack to add to a video tag you would need to convert it into a MediaStream object. see the example below.	object

Example

JavaScript

<video id="localvideo" autoplay muted></video>

JavaScript

meeting.on("localTrackStarted", function(localTrackItem) {
    if (item.type === "video") {
        /**
         * localTrackStarted event emits a MediaStreamTrack
         * but we cannot assign MediaStreamTrack into the html video tag
         * hence we are creating MediaStream object, a MediaStream
         * can be assigned to the html video tag.
         */
        var track = item.track;
        var mediaStream = new MediaStream([track]);
        /**
         * We have a video tag on the page with id
         * localvideo
         * e.g: <video id="localvideo" autoplay muted></video>
         * This video tag will show the user their own video
         */
        document.getElementById("localvideo").srcObject = mediaStream;
        document.getElementById("localvideo").play();
    }
});