Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 02/17/11 10:30, Jörn Zaefferer wrote: Hi, here at SoundCloud we're interested in an API for recording in the browser ( http://blog.soundcloud.com/2010/12/01/record/ ), without Flash and even on mobile browsers. The get things moving with the current idea of a device API (

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: - Let users control access to microphone (whether my app can reach it or not) - Let users turn off and on their microphone Seems to be out of HTML's scope. I would very much want to avoid having the record to file/buffer be a

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: - Let users control access to microphone (whether my app can reach it or not) - Let users turn off and on their microphone Seems to be out of HTML's scope. I would very much want to avoid

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: In effect, you want to create pipelines in JS/ES? I need pipelines that can be manipulated from Javascript, yes. Javascript is not a millisecond-precise language; the running of the

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 02/28/11 15:55, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: In effect, you want to create pipelines in JS/ES? I need pipelines that can be manipulated from Javascript, yes. Javascript is not a

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:55, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: In effect, you want to create pipelines in JS/ES? I need pipelines that can be

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 02/28/11 16:10, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:55, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: In effect, you want to create pipelines

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: - Let users control access to microphone (whether my app can reach it or not) - Let users turn off and on their microphone Seems to be out of HTML's scope.

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-28 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Would POSIX sh suffice for your purposes? The simplest solution I can think of is using sh pipes and standardized device names. POSIX sh is immensely complicated, is not specified to anywhere near the precision

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-20 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/17/11, Sebastian Herrlinger sebast...@formzoo.com wrote: The only way to really access a device and do anything with it and its data would be JS, Not in the OP case, which is about sending finite audio streams, encoded in one of specified formats to a server for storage and distribution.

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-18 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/17/11, Jörn Zaefferer joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com wrote: type=file is for uploading already recorded files, not for recording the file itself in the browser. Even more so on mobile browsers that don't allow file uploads at all (and iPhone probably never will, without the file system).

[whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-17 Thread Jörn Zaefferer
Hi, here at SoundCloud we're interested in an API for recording in the browser ( http://blog.soundcloud.com/2010/12/01/record/ ), without Flash and even on mobile browsers. The get things moving with the current idea of a device API (

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/17/11, Jörn Zaefferer joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, here at SoundCloud we're interested in an API for recording in the browser ( http://blog.soundcloud.com/2010/12/01/record/ ), without Flash and even on mobile browsers. The get things moving with the current idea of a device

Re: [whatwg] Microphone Device API

2011-02-17 Thread Jörn Zaefferer
type=file is for uploading already recorded files, not for recording the file itself in the browser. Even more so on mobile browsers that don't allow file uploads at all (and iPhone probably never will, without the file system). PS: Site should be back? Check the Record on SoundCloud section. On