Re: Behavior of source nodes on connect/disconnect

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 13, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com> wrote:
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>> Of course, HTMLMediaElements must pause when they are removed from the
>> DOM.  So in the general case, disconnecting a playing media element and
>> throwing away all references to it will allow it to be GCd.
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> But you can call play() on a media element after removing it from the DOM.
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> If we were to follow the media element model in Web Audio, we would
> introduce per-node pause() and resume() APIs and specify that when you
> disconnect the last output of a node, there is an implicit pause() call.
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> I’d actually be fine with that.
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> One further hypothetical: should “pause” and “play” traverse down the
> graph?  I.e., if you “pause” a ConvolutionNode, would the
> AudioBufferSourceNode feeding it pause as well.
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In a pull operation model, wouldn't pausing the ConvolverNode stop pulling
on the AudioBufferSourceNode, impllicitly pausing it as well?  But I guess
if there is a ScriptProcessorNode in between, you'd have to do something.

And what exactly are we saying a paused node would output? Nothing?
Silence?

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> -Jer
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