Support FLAC in ISO-BMFF with MSE

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).

Comments

Chrome has had regular src= playback of FLAC since M56 (ChromeOS had it prior to that). Chrome M57 included src= support for FLAC in MP4, using FFmpeg's implementation of the isoflac spec draft to demux. Firefox implemented support for both MSE and regular src= playback of FLAC in MP4 in version 51 (~January 2017).

Demo

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

Documentation

• 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

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Media

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 62
• Chrome for Android release 62
• Android WebView release 62

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• wolenetz@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-09-13