rtc-audio

rtc-audio

This is a small helper module that allows you to render a canvas to visualize audio from an audio or video element, or a getUserMedia stream. It uses the Web Audio API. This can be useful to display audio visually, or to track down when a video or audio element does not behave as you expect.

Usage with WebRTC

This was primarily written to work with the rtc-media library so here's an example of how it works there:

var media = require('rtc-media');
var waveform = require('rtc-audio');

var localvideo = media();

var videoElement = localvideo.render(document.body);

var canvas = waveform(videoElement, {"stream" : localvideo});

Usage with Audio interface

This example shows how to pipe an audio file into the waveform display. The canvas will be added to the body element unless you provide a different element to attach it to.

var waveform = require('rtc-audio');

var audio = new Audio('examples/media/Hydrate-Kenny_Beltrey.ogg');

var canvas = waveform(audio, {"play" : true});

audio.play();

Usage with a media element

This example shows how to create a waveform display for a video element. It also shows how to attach the waveform to a separate element.

var waveform = require('rtc-audio');

var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
var div = document.createElement('div');
var video = document.createElement('video');

video.src = 'examples/media/sintel_trailer.webm';
video.controls = 'controls';

body.appendChild(div);
body.appendChild(video);


var canvas = waveform(video, {"play" : true, "attach" : div });

video.play();

Parameters for waveform

• target : media element or Audio instance
• opts:
  • width : the width of the canvas
  • height : the height of the canvas
  • stream : if you're using WebRTC, you need to hand in the MediaStream directly
  • play : if set to true, also route the audio to the output device
  • attach : element to which the canvas will be added as a child

Running the examples

You can use beefy to run the examples, e.g.

$ beefy examples/rtc-media.js

License(s)

Apache 2.0

Copyright 2013 National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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