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WebCodecs AudioEncoder bitrateMode #218

Open tguilbert-google opened 1 year ago

tguilbert-google commented 1 year ago

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Title of the spec

WebCodecs AudioEncoder bitrateMode

URL to the spec

https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/#dom-audioencoderconfig-bitratemode

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs

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Description

[EDIT] The Media WG has agreed The change to add a bitrateMode to AudioEncoderConfig was merged into the spec as part of https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs/pull/657. This accidentally was not discussed by the Media WG or the spec editors before being merged. See comment below.

This flag will allow web authors to configure WebCodecs AudioEncoders to use a variable bitrate or a constant bitrate. Specific encoder implementations might have slightly different terminology (e.g. CBR vs VBR for Opus), but all of them should map to the general concept of "constant" versus "variable" bitrate.

Work on the Chromium side is being tracked here.

tguilbert-google commented 1 year ago

This request for a standards position is following the Blink feature launch process; it is perhaps heavy-handed for a change of this size (adding a single entry in a dictionary, approved by the Media WG).

Are there any comments as to whether this type of change should go through the standards position request?

tguilbert-google commented 1 year ago

A clarification that came up in the Mozilla standards position issue:

This change was not discussed in the Media WG, and was accidently merged in the spec too quickly: see this comment.

Sorry about that :(