Media News - Thursday, September 09, 2010

Mozilla boosts sound and vision in Firefox 4 beta

Mozilla has made enhancements to its Firefox 4 beta, promising a better sound and vision experience. The latest release includes the use of hardware acceleration to improve graphics rendering and performance, and an API for developers who want to improve the audio experience for users. Mozilla offered a teaser of the hardware acceleration in a YouTube video released earlier this month, showing an increase in frames per second from 12 to 90. The second enhancement aims to turn sound into something visual and interactive, enabling "the visualisation of audio data within the browser", linked in to HTML5 to create a better audio experience. This update exposes the data within a song or speech file to the browser, and turns it into something that can be used, exploited and made more interesting, the firm said. The API was shown off during a presentation at a Mozilla developer event by developer Dave Humphrey, who said that it could be used to turn audio files into something that could be enjoyed by deaf people, for example, or to make sound more interactive. Firefox could be used to manipulate the pitch and tone of an audio file, analyse its beats per minute, or render it as a 2D or 3D image. (VNU Net)

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