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FLAC codec support for <audio> and WebAudio.

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 56)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Enables support for the FLAC audio codec within the FLAC and Ogg containers for the HTML5 <audio> tag and WebAudio's decodeAudioData() API.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC https://xiph.org/flac/ogg_mapping.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContext/decodeAudioData

Samples: http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/

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