Re: Re: Work Started on Audio Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your work in pushing this forward!

Concerning Noah's comment about multi-channel audio input, my API proposal
could easily be extended to cover audio input (as well as output).
AudioContext has a "destination" attribute representing the audio output and
may be multi-channel.  Similarly, there could be a "source" attribute on the
context representing the live audio input (two or more channels).  The main
reason I've left this out in my spec is because there are the security /
device-access
issues which need to be sorted out.  It may be that the <device>
specification is already addressing these issues, but I haven't had time to
keep up with those developments.

Cheers,
Chris


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks-
>
> We advised our Advisory Committee that we are starting work on the Audio WG
> charter, as per W3C Process, and there has been definite interest.
>
> Here are some thoughts sent to me offlist that should be considered as part
> of our use cases and requirements, which may dovetail with what Janina Sajka
> from the accessibility community said in her recent email.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Work Started on Audio Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)
> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:33:26 -0500
> From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
> To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
>
> On 12/2/2010 4:13 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
>
>> some sort of <device> element for microphones or audio-in jacks
>>
>
> Not sure whether I mentioned this to you or to someone else at TPAC, but
> I'd still like to see this generalized to cover more modern audio input
> devices, which support > 2 channels.  I think a great goal would be to
> provide sufficient flexibility that one could do a simple DAW, fed by at
> least commodity grade USB/Firewire interfaces.  Otherwise, the Web remains
> at a huge disadvantage to native.
>
> I don't normally post personal opinions to ac-forum, as I feel it's mainly
> for the AC, but feel free to forward this comment to anyone who might be
> interested, whether inside W3C or not. Please do cc: me.  Thanks!
>
> Noah
>
>
>