Re: Web Audio API is now available in Chrome

Great to hear that, Dave!

Is there any schedule / a version to expect this feature to land on?

Jussi

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, David Humphrey <David.Humphrey@senecac.on.ca
> wrote:

> As for the web workers, it would be pretty cool if Moz got it working. I
>> did
>> an experiment few months ago, which does the processing in a worker, then
>> passes it to back to the script, but it couldn't handle realtime without
>> pops and clips (and thus the whole thing was pretty unsafe as I did some
>> bad
>> coding, and when those were combined I'd get a buffer underflow, and a
>> serious memory leak).
>>
>
> What we're exploring now is a way for a worker to talk directly to the
> audio back-end.  There won't be latency issues, because you will feed the
> audio buffers from underneath, as it were, bypassing the main thread
> altogether.  The current issues you have are the result of workers needing
> to write the audio from the main thread.  Our initial tests with this have
> been very good, but we're figuring out a proper interface and some impl
> details.
>
> Dave
>