~ SMPTE decoding in the browser
» By Joren on Friday 16 September 2022I have created a web application to LTC.wasm decodes SMPTE timecodes from an LTC encoded audio signal.
To synchronize multiple music and video recordings a shared SMPTE timecode signal is often used. For practical purposes the timecode signal is encoded in an audio stream. The timecode can then be recorded in sync with microphone inputs or added to a video recording. The timecode is encoded in audio with LTC, linear timecode. A special decoder is needed to extract SMPTE timecode from the audio. This is exactly what the LTC.wasm application does.
Try out the SMPTE decoder with your own SMPTE files.
The advantage of the web-based version versus the command line ltc-tools is that it does not need to be installed separately and that ffmpeg decodes audio. This means that almost any multimedia format is supported automatically. The command line version only supports a limited number of audio formats.
For further information check out the the LTC.wasm GitHub repository