aLaw audio format is not supported by HTML5 audio tag

Question

HTML5 audio player is not supporting aLaw audio format (in chrome and firefox) , is there any solution to play it, I don't want to use flash as a fallback.

Discription of aLaw (WAV) file : Wave A-Law , 8000Hz , 64kbps , mono

ps: this format is working fine with mobile browsers (Including safari in desktop).

Answer 1

You can use an excellent solution on joomlavision to trigger webkitAudioAPI for aLaw WAVs

http://www.joomlavision.com/play-html5-audio-browser/

Answer 2

aLaw will be supported in Chrome 33 (see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=217772)