Re: AudioBufferSourceNode start(0) without a buffer?

Do we want to do that, or just throw an exception when start() is called
when there's no buffer set (or something like that)?


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Karl Tomlinson <
karlt+public-audio@karlt.net> wrote:

> Raymond Toy writes:
>
> > Consider this:
> >
> > c = new webkitAudioContex();
> > s = c.createBufferSource();
> > s.connect(c,destination);
> > c.decodeAudioData(data, function () { s.buffer = data });
> > s.start(0);
> >
> > Let's say decodeAudioData takes 10 sec to decode.  What is supposed to
> > happen here?
>
> Reading the current spec, I would have expected/guessed start()
> would set the start time to the time at the call to start().  When
> the buffer is set later, it would start playing at an offset equal
> to the elapsed time since start() was called.  If this
> interpretation were used, some other means would be required to
> defeat iOS user interaction requirements: setting playbackRate to
> 0 temporarily, perhaps.  Requiring the UA to integrate
> playbackRate even while the there is no buffer may be a little
> awkward.
>
> Gecko, however, seems to match Webkit and Blink's old behaviour of
> starting playback from the beginning of the buffer (at the time
> when the buffer is set).
>
>