Hi Fabio, Worked fine with Safari and Mac OSX. > I tried using jack. It immediately showed the 6 channel web process in the > routing window! > Also without jack it directly played back. > > Could you give some background on the HTML5 implementation or on how you > realized this? >
its simple. One of HTML5's advantages is that it is the browser that supplies the media players. This means less need for 3rd party media players like Flash / Quicktime / VLC etc. That means less barriers to entry .. which means there is a growing chance that more people will 'just hear' 5.1 coming out of their connected speakers (if they have them connected to a 5.1 card). Here is what the HTML5 code looks like (<audio> is an HTML5 tag): <audio controls="controls"> <source src="someAACFile.m4a" type="audio/mp4" /> <source src="someVorbisFile.ogg" type="audio/ogg" /> <source src="someAC3File.ac3" type="audio/ac3" /> Looks like your browser does not support HTML 5. Non HTML5 code would go here. Perhaps a quicktime plugin for the old browsers. </audio> The browser chooses whichever one it can play, and supplies the media player. And that seems to be: IE9 + : AAC Safari: AAC Chrome: AAC / Vorbis Firefox 8+: none of them, but if you have VLC installed it will have a go at OGG and perhaps AC3 opened in VLC. It is Firefox that fails us here. Firefox can play Vorbis files, but not multichannel ones. Etienne > > Regards > > Fabio > > Am 27.11.2011 um 05:08 schrieb etienne deleflie: > > > I've been meaning to try out HTML5's capabilities for a while, now seems > a > > good time. > > > > http://soundofspace.com/static/test_html5.html > > > > This page hosts an (ambisonicaly decoded) 5.1 file in AAC and AC3 .... > > using HTML5 the browser should automatically choose the one it can > support. > > > > InternetExplorer 9 supports AAC, so does Safari and so does Chrome. So > that > > covers around 50% of browsers. BUT ... it also covers the two main OSes. > > > > Firefox is the other 50% ... and that means Ogg ... not sure if firefox > > supports AC3 but I dont think it does. > > > > The only question is whether or not the Browser can successfully stream > the > > 5.1 channels to the sound card connected to multiple speakers. > > > > ... any reports of success or failure would be appreciated. > > > > Etienne > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20111127/ae3fafc3/attachment.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > Sursound@music.vt.edu > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20111130/ac4977c0/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
