On 2010-08-31 22:11, James Salsman wrote:
Does anyone object to form input type=file
accept="audio/*;capture=microphone" using Speex as a default, as if it
were specified
accept="audio/x-speex;quality=7;bitrate=16000;capture=microphone" or
to allowing the requesting of different speex qualities and bitrates
using those mime type parameters?
Speex at quality=7 is a reasonable open source default audio vocoder.
Runner-up alternatives would include audio/ogg, which is a higher
bandwidth format appropriate for multiple speakers or polyphonic
music; audio/mpeg, a popular but encumbered format; audio/wav, a union
of several different sound file formats, some of which are encumbered;
etc.
Actually, wouldn't accept="audio/*;capture=microphone"
basically indicate that the server wish to accept anything as audio?
Which means it's up to the browser to decide what is best (among a list
of the most common audio formats most likely).
The proper way however would be to do:
accept="audio/flac, audio/wav, audio/ogg, audio/aac,
audio/mp3;capture=microphone"
indicating all the audio formats the server can handle.
audio/* basically says to the browser that it can send anything even raw
data or a image as if it was audio,
and the website would have to respond to the user that this was
unsupported or that they should submit these formats instead.
Although I guess that audio/* could be taken as a sign that the browser
should negotiate directly with the server about the preferred format to
use. (Is POST HEADER request supported even?)
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