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Bug 14386 - HTML5 media lacks audio panning support.
Summary: HTML5 media lacks audio panning support.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2011-10-05 07:33 UTC by Arun Patole
Modified: 2012-04-20 10:14 UTC (History)
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Description Arun Patole 2011-10-05 07:33:42 UTC
Many game developers seem to be interested in having panning support for audio element in HTML5(references give below). This will allow programs to position audio between left and right speakers.

May be adding something like HTMLMediaElement(audio/video).panning = 0 | 1.0 | -1.0 would help.

-1.0 only left speaker,
+1.0 only right speaker
0.0 both speakers.

references:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56721
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/My_HTML5_CSS3_Browser_Wish_List#_section_1_3
http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio
http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2011/05/ive-been-having-twitter-back-and-forth.html
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-21 22:49:10 UTC
Proper 3D positioning in Web Audio might be the better way to address this.
Comment 2 Philippe Le Hegaret 2012-01-17 21:24:59 UTC
Have a look at 4.14 The AudioPannerNode Interface:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webaudio-20111215/#AudioPannerNode-section
Comment 3 Arun Patole 2012-04-20 10:14:14 UTC
closing this bug as it looks like web audio is addressing this.