Minimize buffering when using audio element

Asked Jul 18 '15 at 22:08

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I'm sending Opus audio to a browser and I need it to play almost instantly. I am using an audio element like this:

<audio src="/stream.opus" autoplay  preload="auto" type="audio/opus" controls />

This seems to require ~4 seconds before it starts playing the audio. I would like something closer to 100ms. Any ideas?

asked Jul 18 '15 at 22:08

Marcus Johansson

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have you tried using the buffered dom element http://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_prop_buffered.asp – Rachel Gallen Jul 19 '15 at 00:20
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forget that, use the web audio api. here is an article with a good intro to it http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/ – Rachel Gallen Jul 19 '15 at 00:51
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here is a fiddle of webaudio http://jsfiddle.net/thingsinjars/eLqU5/500/ – Rachel Gallen Jul 19 '15 at 00:54
Seems great at a first glance. Will implement it in my app and get back accept. – Marcus Johansson Jul 19 '15 at 11:17
This does not seem to work when streaming. Of what I can see request.response is undefined while reading data from the server. – Marcus Johansson Jul 22 '15 at 20:21

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