On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I know it's kind of crazy given our garbage-collected, single content > process world, but reading this thread makes me wonder what it would take > to use the browser to implement a real linux-hosted audio workstation-type > app. As in, something that requires truly low-latency audio with mixing. My > (years stale) understanding is that pulseaudio is kind of the wrong model, > and can't really offer the right guarantees at an architectural level. ALSA > is, as ever, a mess, and just because you can play sound through ALSA on > one hardware configuration doesn't really mean much for other drivers. > > Last I knew, JACK was the only way to get basically no dropouts and still > be able to do nontrivial audio processing. But a JACK backend for the > browser just seems kind of silly; it's too much of a niche "market" to try > for anytime soon. > A JACK backend for cubeb, hence Firefox, exists but isn't compiled into Mozilla builds. The Web Audio API lets audio processing run on its own real-time thread, and that's what Gecko does, although on Linux unprivileged users running Firefox can't give that thread real-time priority. Rob -- lbir ye,ea yer.tnietoehr rdn rdsme,anea lurpr edna e hnysnenh hhe uresyf toD selthor stor edna siewaoeodm or v sstvr esBa kbvted,t rdsme,aoreseoouoto o l euetiuruewFa kbn e hnystoivateweh uresyf tulsa rehr rdm or rnea lurpr .a war hsrer holsa rodvted,t nenh hneireseoouot.tniesiewaoeivatewt sstvr esn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
