Record Audio In HTML5 Record Lossless Audio in Safari Technology Preview With New ALAC and PCM Codec Support In Safari Technology Preview Release 214, Apple introduced support for ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) and PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) audio codecs in the MediaRecorder API. This enhancement lets developers record high-quality, lossless
Technology Turning on the new Camera and Microphone Selector & Preview in Chrome Starting with Chrome 123 there's a new feature that allows you to 1. select the desired camera 2. select the desired microphone 3. preview the selected camera video stream 4. test
Technology Camera and Microphone Access In Cross Origin Iframes With getUserMedia & Feature Policy If you’re trying to access the camera and microphone with getUserMedia() in a cross origin iframe on a recent version of Chrome, by default it will fail. We’ve encountered this situation
Product Updates Better Copy For Getting Camera & Microphone Access One place where Chrome and Firefox did a good job of aligning is in the use of keywords in the camera & microphone permissions dialog. Luckly, for some reason, they ended up using
Technology Camera and Microphone Access in macOS Mojave Previous macOS versions allowed you to control what apps can access your location, contacts, photos, calendar and reminders. macOS Mojave adds the ability to control what apps can access your camera and microphone.
Technology getUserMedia() Camera & Microphone Initialization Times After using the Permissions API to accurately measure how users interact with the camera & microhone permissions dialog we realised we could measure more. The Permissions API data allows us to filter those
Product Updates getUserMedia() Logs To The Rescue For a long time we've been in the dark about the problems and errors users had with granting access to camera and microphone devices. We knew there were occasional problems but
Technology Common getUserMedia() Errors Once you get getUserMedia() working with audio and video constraints you immediately start hitting problems like: 1. user has no webcam, just a microphone 2. user has (accidentally) denied access to the webcam
Technology getUserMedia() Video Constraints WebRTC is constantly evolving and with it, it’s most known function getUserMedia(). With it you can get access to the device’s webcams and microphones and request a video stream, an audio
Technology Supported Audio Constraints in getUserMedia() The No.1 feature request we got this year is the ability to record audio instead of video so we set out to deliver just that, hopefully by the end of the year.
Technology HTML5’s Media Recorder API in Action on Chrome and Firefox April 2016 update: added info about Chrome 49 October 2016 update: added H.264 support for Chrome 52 For many years recording webcam video on the web meant using Adobe’s Flash plugin.