- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:37:37 +0300
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- CC: Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>, public-audio@w3.org, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
On 05/21/2012 05:11 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> I think Olli is talking about defining Web Audio on top of MediaStreams. E.g. the spec could say that an AudioNode behaves just like a MediaStream,
> but with certain extra features.
Right, though the exact details are still unknown.
AudioNodes could basically add some utility/helper methods to MediaStream objects,
or behave as stream processors (apply some effects etc).
The API for JS should stay pretty similar.
interface AudioNode : MediaStream
{
...
};
-Olli
>
> If we don't do that, then specifying all the interactions between AudioNodes and MediaStreams (and any other media-stream-like abstractions created
> later) could get a lot more difficult. For example we still have unresolved questions about maintaining synchronization in combinations of AudioNodes
> and MediaStreams. Another case is cycles in the graph. Cycles of AudioNodes are allowed; what about cycles of MediaStreams? What if someone creates a
> cycle involving both AudioNodes and MediaStreams?
>
> Another danger is that in the future features get added to AudioNodes and MediaStreams independently which cause problems when the frameworks are
> mingled. This danger is mitigated if they share underlying definitions.
>
> BTW since I realized last week that Web Audio allows cycles in the graph, I've been studying the interaction of cycles (with delay) with the features
> of MediaStreams Processing (pausing of individual streams, buffering to maintain synchronization in the presence of high-delay processing nodes,
> synchronized cueing of arbitrary streams) using formal methods. Some combinations of these features have unresolvable problems. I'll have more to say
> when I've done some more analysis.
>
> Rob
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>
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