Seems to stop working when page is not foreground

[jeregrine]

Seems to just stop emitting events if the page is in the background.

[latentflip]

Browsers often suspend/slow down timeout/interval calls in background pages. It looks like chrome drops timer intervals to at most one per second, which will indeed break things.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6032429/chrome-timeouts-interval-suspended-in-background-tabs suggests a hack where you run the timer in a webworker and postmessage back, which looks like the only option, but I'm not sure how appropriate it is here.

[jeregrine]

Well I've never done anything with webworkers before I guess... thanks for your help!

[xdumaine]

I think a better approach will be to use hark on the remote stream with new webaudio APIs as opposed to the local stream, and sending it to the other end. That way, when backgrounded, you don't need to animate anyway.

[jeregrine]

Xander you cannot use hark with a remote media stream as said in the
README. The linked chrome issue says it landed in canary in December. Is it
in stable now?

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Xander Dumaine [email protected]
wrote:

I think a better approach will be to use hark on the remote stream with
new webaudio APIs as opposed to the local stream, and sending it to the
other end. That way, when backgrounded, you don't need to animate anyway.

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Related: #24

[Superlukec]

If anyone still has this problem, use this library:
https://github.com/turuslan/HackTimer

It is mentioned at the stackoverflow thread, which latentflip posted.