Support FLAC in ISO-BMFF with MSE

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 62)
Intent stage: None

Summary

FLAC is a lossless audio coding format, already supported in regular Chrome HTML5 playback. This feature adds support for FLAC in ISO-BMFF to Chrome HTML5 Media Source Extensions (MSE).

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/xiph/flac/blob/master/doc/isoflac.txt
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/666000

Docs: https://www.w3.org/TR/mse-byte-stream-format-isobmff/ https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/38 https://github.com/w3c/media-source/issues/188

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media/flac-in-mp4-for-mse.html

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