Media pipelines composition API to allow sorting video tiles via the recent active speakers

[paul365]

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Tell us about your request

What do you want us to build?

Add an option to allow automatic sorting of video tiles based on the recent active speakers. Which can be used for both GridView with no screen share and Horizontal/Vertical ContentShareLayout. This will be especially useful when a content share is active and on the Horizontal/Vertical layout where only 4 video tiles are shown.

Which Amazon Chime SDK or feature area is this request for?
amazon-chime-sdk-js

Tell us about the problem you are trying to solve and why is it hard?

The more details you provide us, the better we will be able to help you.

Currently, with screen share on and on horizontal/vertical layout, tiles are sorted based on Back-end logic sorts the video tiles by the times at which attendees enable their video. Presenters appear on the left when they enable video. this can become difficult to manage as an attendee can join late with their camera on, and their video will be shown instead of an active speaker. An option to have the tiles sorted by recent active speaker should fix this behavior.

How are you currently solving a problem?

Are there any workarounds or mitigations you have used? Why is it not working for you?

We have sorting video tiles based on subscribeToActiveSpeakerDetector working on our implementation of https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-chime-sdk-recording-demo, but we want to drop this implementation and rely on MediaPipelines for the meeting recording.