On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > Currently, PNG and the Canvas tag set a solid precedent for including a > lossless file format in media APIs. The PNG format, at its most basic, > simply compresses a bitmap using deflate. > > I'd like to see the same precedent followed in some of the new media > APIs. FLAC provides a lossless audio format which can be used to package > audio data from items like the MediaStream .record method. > > How would we go about adding this into specifications? > > I'll point out that many vendors support JPEG in addition to PNG, but > that's not part of the specs, and it is a lossy format. It'd be nice to > see something like Speex supported by vendors on audio APIs, but like > JPEG, it's something that should remain a lesser priority to supporting > a lossless format. > > MediaStream record seems like it could accept a mime type, much as > toBlob / toDataURL do on Canvas. That's one possible point of entry. > > Does anyone have feedback on this issue? Is there any push-back out > there on supporting FLAC as a baseline format for <audio> input and > output? Obviously, it is bandwidth heavy, as is PNG.
Since the MediaStream API has moved to the WebRTC WG, I recommend raising this there instead. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'