Re: decodeAudioData and resampling

Thanks!  Filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20241 to
track getting this spec'ed.

Cheers,

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Ehsan
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> wrote:
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>> The spec doesn't mention anything about whether the implementation is
>> supposed to resample the source audio buffer to the sample rate of the
>> audio context when decoding the audio.  From examining the behavior of
>> Chrome, I think the WebKit implementation does resample audio when
>> decoding, and the AudioBuffer passed to the success callback contains the
>> resampled data.  I can see both use cases for doing the resampling and not
>> doing that, but I think the most common use case (playing the AudioBuffer
>> back later) requires us to resample.
>>
>> What do people think about this?  No matter what we end up doing, we need
>> to say explicitly what needs to happen in the spec.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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> Hi Ehsan, sorry the spec isn't clear about this.  The intended behavior is
> for the implementation to resample the decoded audio data to the
> AudioContext sample-rate as part of the decodeAudioData() operation.  This
> is so that we don't have to resample the data at playback time, which can
> get very expensive especially with several sources playing back at the same
> time.  Sample-rate converting up-front allows us to use higher-quality
> sample-rate conversion algorithms, since it's easier to afford the
> expensive algorithms.
>
> Chris
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>> Ehsan
>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
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