Re: Changing sample rate, Web Audio API, getUserMedia -- forward from [chromium-discuss]

The more problematic portion of this, He, is that I suspect your input
device is giving a higher bitrate than you want anyway, so there's no
getting around that you'll need to transcode your input stream (unless your
input hardware really is giving a 16kHz mono stream) - it's just whether
there would be built-in ways to do that, and right now, there aren't.  In
our current design, the input is promoted to the output's hardware rate -
it's not locked to 44kHz/stereo/16bit, that just happens to be what your
output hardware is.

Reducing from stereo to mono is easy, of course.  As I mentioned before,
dropping from 44kHz to 22kHz is also easy; but if you really need to encode
at specifically 16kHz, and don't want to write the interpolation code, you
can always record the buffer in your normal AudioContext, then create an
OfflineAudioContext at 16kHz mono 16bit, call offlineContext.createBuffer(
1, length, sampleRate ); and copy the data from your recorded buffer, then
play in the offline context and encode the resulting buffer you're handed
in oncomplete.


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:44 AM, He Shiming <heshiming@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rob.
>
> But the so called 'StreamRecorder' is a bit confusing. A google search
> came up nothing related. Though the sample code here:
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/webaudio/webrtc-integration.htmldid mention the '.record' method on LocalMediaStream interface, the actual
> draft: http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html mentioned
> 'Apr 23 2012 - Remove MediaStreamRecorder' with no further explanation.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> The StreamRecorder API proposal in public-media-capture is a better fit
>> for this use-case. It will let developers record directly to WAV with
>> minimal JS code, at whatever the native sample rate of the stream is.
>>
>> Rob
>> --
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>
>
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> Best regards,
> He Shiming
>