RE: fftSize requirement for RealtimeAnalyserNode

Power of two isn't an arbitrary limit in the FFT, it's a fundamental
piece of what makes it the Fast Fourier Transform.     If you want an
arbitrary number then you can't use the  FFT algorithm, you need the
discrete Fourier transform or the like.

 

 

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From: Raymond Toy [mailto:rtoy@google.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:34 AM
To: Jussi Kalliokoski
Cc: Wei, James; public-audio@w3.org
Subject: Re: fftSize requirement for RealtimeAnalyserNode

 

 

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski
<jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Raymond Toy <rtoy@google.com> wrote:

	 

	Do you have a specific need for a non-power of two analysis?
I'm just curious.


It just seems like an arbitrary limit. Most of the time, you probably
want to set the length in seconds, not samples, and then you won't get a
power-of-two.

 

Yes, I'll agree that it's an arbitrary limit.  And, yes, seconds (or
more lilkely, fractions of a second) is probably more useful and scales
better if the sample rate changes.

 

	 

		Also, FFTW uses the GPL license, so if the browser is
also not GPL, there are potential legal issues.  This is where you go
ask a lawyer. 

	
	There are other ones as well (kissfft is BSD 3-clause for
example, IIRC), but I don't think the licensing of certain FFT
implementations is a valid argument to base the spec on.

 

No, but you mentioned using FFTW in particular which has some licensing
issues. 

	
	Also, the algorithm isn't complex, you could implement it
without a library.

 

Agreed.  But getting a fast one is complex.

 

Thanks for the info,

 

Ray

 




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