i am coding on a custom player for quite a while now.
My plan was to use soundcloud as my backend. And the HTML5 audio Tag as my streaming object.
I also want to include a Canvas for a bit of visualisation. And thats were the problem starts.
For the Visuals to work on both Browsers, I need to load the audio into an arraybuffer via xhr request. But then I can't use the audio Tag anymore. Which is sad, because by now I know how to code all the functionality i need based on it.
I found the article on html5rocks about html5 audio and WebAudio being best friends.
There is also an example on how to use the tag with an frequency bar visualizer. BUT
this only works on Chrome, because Firefox - maybe some of you have noticed - will play .mp3 files but inside a video object. For the visuals to work I would need .ogg files for Firefox. But then i can't use soundcloud as my backend anymore.
So do i have to rethink the whole player - or is there a way to decode the audio on both browsers while using html 5 audio?
thank you very much.
That's an issue with FF (no MP3 support in <audio>). But can't you get a media stream from the element also? It shouldn't matter that it's a not an - audioContext.createMediaElementSource should work on that, too.
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I assume that this is possible, here is question, also on stackoverflow, that confirms it.
However I have failed while trying to make it work, so I'm asking for your help.
How can I do this?
WebM uses a variant of the Matroska container so it's not too surprising that some browsers are able to play some .mkv files. It's likely that you'd need to set the content type header to something that the browser recognises (eg. video/webm) if it was going to work at all.
However, that's only part of the story. The Matroska container is just that, a container. Inside the container are video and audio objects which have been encoded with particular codecs, if the browser you're attempting to play the file with doesn't support those codecs then they won't be able to play the file even if they can parse the container format. If you want wide compatibility then your best option is to transcode to one of the more common container/codec combinations such as MP4/h264 or WebM/VP8.
You wanna take a look at DivX player
Cut & paste
As of version 2.1, the DivX Plus Web Player supports the HTML5 API, so
it can be embedded and controlled using the tag and open web
standards such as JavaScript. It takes full advantage of the
tag’s attributes by allowing publishers to create seamless playback
experiences and custom controls for DivX, AVI, MKV, MP4 and MOV videos
across multiple browsers: Firefox and Chrome (Internet Explorer &
Safari Coming in full release version).
I'm working on a project of visualising audio into canvas, so far I understood that I would have to use AudioAPI, something like SoundManager 2 etc. which has a flash fallback. There is one thing tho, I don't wan't to use flash fallbacks (at the moment I would only want this visualisation to work in modern browsers with support of HTML5 audio), therefore I'm not sure if I should use it. Is it possible to achieve cross browser visualisation without any external resources? or using SoundManager 2, but somehow without flash fall back? I'm new to this, could you please outline steps that I need to take in order to proceed with project.
Nope. No cross-browser way to do this if you don't want a Flash fallback. Chrome and Safari have the Web Audio API and Firefox has the Audio Data API (for now, it's been deprecated), but IE doesn't currently have any way to manipulate audio without plugins.
I'm trying to build a html5 app, part of it requires the recording of audios whose length should be up to a minute and then encode it into 64 based, so I did quite a bit searching and didn't find a good answer.
Are there any ways to record an audio with Html5, Javascript or maybe local APIs on a html5 app, especially on an IOS device?
Html5 doesn't yet have a widely accepted method of recording audio. If you are targeting non-iOS, you can use flash, or any number of javascript wrappers that call out to flash( eg. http://www.sajithmr.me/jrecorder-jquery I think soundmanager2 will also work, but I'm not sure). For iOS, you still need to write an app. :(
Short answer is no for now. Because audio not yet implemented to HTML5 browsers yet.
Method is working but you can't capture any audio.
Well here is a detailed answer for you: Recording html5 audio
This may be too late for a response, but having said that, both Chrome and Firefox now fully support getUserMedia and you can use it along with the AudioContext interface if needed, to capture audio directly from the browser.
The following gitHub project records audio and saves it in MP3 format directly in the browser using just HTML5 and JS.
The audio recording is saved in base64 and can also be directly listened to from the browser after the recording is made.
The project can be found here:
https://github.com/nusofthq/Recordmp3js
and is an extension of RecorderJS that also uses libmp3lame.js.
If you wish you can read more details about the actual implementation:
http://nusofthq.com/blog/recording-mp3-using-only-html5-and-javascript-recordmp3-js/
I have a OVG video and I would like to put that into my site. I do not know much about that file format so I am concerned how it will be with cross browser compatibility. I know that FF will play the file yet I am unsure about IE (I am only worrying about IE 8+)
What is the best way to put this file into my site? Should I use the HTML 5 <video> tag or should I use another format? I need this to work with IE 8 so I am unsure what the best route is.
Thanks!
You should use video element, with multiple source elements inside, each pointing to a different format of your .ovg file. you can generate cross-browser files at media.io or via Miro converter (download). the best way would be to degrade gracefully for older browsers, you'll want to provide some JavaScript, VideoJS is my preferred lib, you can use their embed builder tool, that'll provide the older fallbacks
For the best compatibility, you'll want to use a video hosting site and embed the Flash video into the site. If you want to host it yourself, you'll have to find a Flash video player that you can use, but I'm pretty sure most or all of those are commercial.
Otherwise you'll need to have both an H264 version (MP4) and an OGG version and include both versions in the source tag. You can then also include a fallback to a Flash embedded version.
You can find out more here.
Can I click on some time and eventhough the video is not downlaoded till that time and the video starts playing from the time I clicked?
If yes, what would be a better option for viewing streamed video- HTML5 or flash player like JW player? WHich one will have less lag?
HTML5 browsers generally don't support this, however I believe the video tag in Safari will work with the Apple HTTP Streaming format for this functionality. For something that works across all browsers, Flash Player can do it using either RTMP streaming or HTTP Streaming (either with our without OSMF to support this). Probably the easiest place to start is with OSMF, which supports both RTMP and HTTP streaming of video.
I have tested this with Firefox and Firebug and while you can "seek" to a point in the video without having to watch video preceding the point you wish to seek, this still causes the entire video file to download.
Indeed, each time you seek in Firefox 4, the entire video downloads.
This may change and improve as HTML 5 video implementations become more mature and may differ based on the actual browser being used.
More information on the test here:
http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201106/Blog/HTML-5-Video-In-Real-Life/