Re: Can users determine if audio has glitched?

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Russell McClellan <russell@motu.com> wrote:

> Is there a way under the current API for users to determine if audio has
> glitched (in particular, because their ScriptProcessorNode was too slow)?
>
> This would be very useful, because then programs could increase buffer
> size or decrease audio quality based on whether or not the script processor
> was completing on time.
>
> The only way I can think to do this currently would be to inspect the
> playbackTime attribute on the AudioProcessingEvent and make sure that's
> it's increasing by exactly one buffer each call.  This seems a bit fragile
> to me, as perhaps there's other reasons why the web audio graph might
> decide to skip a buffer of script processing.
>

There is no way currently, but there could be a "missed deadline"
EventListener .onmissed (or something like that)


>
> Thanks,
> -Russell
>