SynthMaker

Firefox Audio API

Archive · 2010 6 old posts

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rl ·

Firefox 4 beta 5 is out and this demo has left me pretty speechless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1UsLoPX3E ...finally even javascript within a browser is fast enough for realtime audio manipulation and FFT analysis! more: http://audioscene.org/ - espc. check the 6th video (Bloop). more info here: http://vimeo.com/11345133

TomC ·

I don't like it.

Tom

MyCo ·

I just tried it, and it's absolutely crazy. It's so damn easy to programm. But there is a negative issue: eg. the demo slideshow uses a complete core on my C2D mac book pro, even when there is no FFT or any effect used.

infuzion ·

Thanks for the link! Flash has an interface to run graphics & audio maths in ASM for a few years now also.

I've looked at the HTML5 for a project for text to run with videos/audio, but there are sync issues now which are still being ironed out. Seems this whole HTML5/CSS3 is still not fully standardized, & until IE9, FireFox4, & WebKit vX has a standard implementation of HTML5 for audio, video, & 3d, browser devs have to still build fancy browser apps with Flash, but also learn to do it via HTML5 for when it hits.

Dang Apple for not supporting Flash!

aliasant ·

Well.

Flash has been around for a long time now and this HTML5 is still in early stages. Wait a year or 2 and then you can start comparing Flash against HTML5. My guess is that HTML5 will do quite well. It will be easy to code in and clients wont need to download some buggy driver/dll crap to use it. It will just run in your browser without any extra tinkering. When this works.. why use the complicated, buggy Flash?

Jay ·

This looks very interesting. Thanks for the link

I was most impressed with the 3d stuff. The sound api will be most welcome here as i have tried getting Java Sound kit to work and ended up in nothing but a mess.

So well done Firefox team! now go fix that browser 😉

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