Re: TAG feedback on Web Audio

On Aug 6, 2013, at 6:56 PM, K. Gadd <kg@luminance.org> wrote:

> Given flash's continued prevalence for streaming realtime audio/video and use cases like video chat and game rendering, whatever works for the pepper flash plugin should probably work okay for web audio (though it certainly isn't necessarily *needed*).


I believe this is a faulty premise.

Video, especially 24 FPS video, is much more immune to jitter and delays than is audio.  In the video case, frames are 30 to 40 ms apart, and if a frame is delayed by a few ms, that delay is almost imperceptible to the human eye.

With 44,100 kHz audio and a small frame size (128 samples in Blink & WebKit Web Audio, usually), each batch of samples is only 3 ms apart, and if those samples are delayed even by less than a millisecond, there will be an audible ‘pop’ in the rendered audio.

Additionally, I would assume that in Chrome the video is piped back to the main process for rendering, but the audio is rendered locally in the plugin process.

-Jer