- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:01:45 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Brady Eidson wrote: > > From 4.8.10.9: "If the playbackRate is not 1.0, the user agent may > apply pitch adjustments to the audio as necessary to render it > faithfully." > > While pitch correction is certainly desirable a lot of the time, we've > found that it is also desirable to disable pitch correction on demand. > Content authors might *prefer* the "chipmunk" effect during faster > playback or the "stretched low voice" effect during slower playback. > > As such, WebKit just added a new attribute to the MediaElement called > "webkitPreservesPitch." For now it defaults to true, as the default > playback behavior for our main ports has been to do pitch correction. > But by setting it to false, author's can get the chipmunk/stretch effect > when they desire. > > Hopefully other folks will like this idea and we could add the > "preservesPitch" attribute to the MediaElement so we could drop the > webkit prefix on this! I've noted this in the spec notes for future versions. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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