Web Player popping/lag

[murdochi]

Running the Web Player through Chrome on Pixelbook Go is…not great. Even with absolutely nothing running, after a fresh restart, no tabs or PDFs open etc, the performance absolutely tanks - there’s a lot of lagging and popping/stuttering on playback. I get the Pixelbook Go isn’t particularly powerful (although using the Web Player on a very beefy gaming PC still has a small percentage of the popping/lagging) but I wonder if there’s an option to just play the audio at a lower bit-rate or whatever?

edit - as a side note, I have downloaded the Sci-Fi Player for my Pixelbook, and the performance is fine, but downloading sound sets takes 7 minutes, on a 200Mbps connection. The download speeds would be pretty bad even if it was 2001.

[benjamin]

@murdochi

Running the Web Player through Chrome on Pixelbook Go is…not great.

We hear you (get it?.. hear you?)

Good info re your issues on this thread:

Web Player Issues/Quality

Hiya both, Yes, yes, yes and yes. Soooo… theoretically the sound in the Web Player should be significantly better than that coming out of our Unity build. a) The Web Player uses convolution panning, which means positioned audio elements have an increased sense of spatiality = they sound more 3D. b) The Web Player uses convolution reverb, which is a more advanced reverb type (more realistic and natural) than the comb reverbs of Unity. BUT: a) both these processes use more CPU…

[murdochi]

Great stuff! Thanks for the reply, enjoying the app so far.

[murdochi]

Any ideas about the download speeds for soundsets in the Syrinscape Sci-Fi Player? It seems to be a shaky connection as well as a very low download speed. Fluctuations between 0 and 57kB/s, which is probably era-appropriate for a 1920s game of Call of Cthulhu!