Audio Capture on Firefox

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kidsil
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Audio Capture on Firefox

Post by kidsil »

I recently saw an experimental tool called Mozilla Rainbow
This tool enables the user to capture Video and Audio with HTML5 without Flash.
Sadly I couldn't test this extension because it's not supported in Linux.
I'm very interested in such implementation in Firefox.


thank you.
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Re: Audio Capture on Firefox

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Everything I've read says it should support audio recording on Linux. Though I can't test it because it doesn't support x64 yet (and I don't feel like taking the time to get it to build).
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Re: Audio Capture on Firefox

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So the support is for linux 64bit only? that's odd.. I was under the impression that the vast majority still works on 32bit.
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Re: Audio Capture on Firefox

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Bluefang's post is saying (IIRC) that Rainbow only has 32-bit components, so it won't work in 64-bit Firefox, while it will in 32-bit Firefox.

It's advertised as having Linux support right there on the page you linked.
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Re: Audio Capture on Firefox

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KWierso wrote:Bluefang's post is saying (IIRC) that Rainbow only has 32-bit components, so it won't work in 64-bit Firefox, while it will in 32-bit Firefox.

It's advertised as having Linux support right there on the page you linked.


https://github.com/mozilla/rainbow/blob/master/README
Linux: Video not supported, ALSA for Audio


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s-rainbow/
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Re: Audio Capture on Firefox

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I'm sorry but http://i.imgur.com/KJkiC.png
Doesn't work on Linux (I tried ignoring and installing the Windows version, and the Mac version later on, doesn't get the demos working)
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