Re: [WebAudioAPI] connecting AudioNodes from different AudioContexts

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry Olli, the spec needs to be more explicit that an exception will
>>>> be thrown because connections between AudioNodes of different contexts are
>>>> not allowed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why aren't they allowed? It doesn't seem hard to implement. If you're
>>> supporting MediaStreams integration then it's similar to
>>> context2.createMediaStreamNode(node1.stream).
>>>
>>
>> Because different AudioContexts may be running at different sample-rates,
>>
>
> So resample.
>

I'm not sure that understand the use case here.  If we find one where this
is absolutely necessary, then maybe we could relax this restriction.


>
>
>> and even at faster than real-time (as soon as I add OfflineAudioContext).
>>  So this will not be allowed.
>>
>
> So then disallow connections between faster-than-real-time and real-time
> nodes.
>
> We'll have to figure something out for media stream and media element
> integration with OfflineAudioContext anyway.
>

Yes, there are unique challenges if you're running faster (or slower) than
real-time.  Some things won't make sense such as generating a real-time
stream to be sent to a remote peer.  But that's ok.  The whole point of
processing faster than real-time in an offline context is to render a mix
or "bake" a complex processing effect/sequence to an AudioBuffer.


>
> Rob
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