On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Patrick Mueller wrote:
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
- New media elements: <audio>, <video>
We love these and have them implemented. We don't see any
implementation issues in the current spec.
I played with the audio support about a month ago, and was
unpleasantly surprised to find that if you loop audio there is a
noticeable delay (sub-second, but very noticeable) between when the
audio clip ended and then started again, in WebKit nightlies on the
Mac.
I posted a Q on the whatwg ml as to whether there was an intention
that looped audio (and video, for that matter) should be
"seamless". Got various responses. AnneK responded that the
intention was for it to be seamless. Ian responded that large clips
couldn't be guaranteed to be buffered enough to make seamless audio
a requirement.
So there's some wiggle room in the spec. And of course, since the
implementation of the audio support is a platform issue, not much we
can do about this to magically make audio seamless for every
platform. Still, seamless looping seems like something webkit ports
should strive for.
As an example, paste this into the snippet editor
<audio
src="http://is.gd/2zHIy";
autoplay="true"
loop="true">
You'll hear 4-5 seconds of static, then it pauses before it restarts.
Did you file the two bugs necessary here (hearing static, and non-
seamless looping)?
Simon
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