Re: Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)
Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian now.
I'm intending to try and sort this out for myself this very weekend.
I'll post if you're interested.
Cheers,
TreeBoy
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 18:36, Marty wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> Suddenly I see something I really *want*:
> > audio to go over an X connection from one machine to another! And
> > then it turns out just to be two separate topics.
>
> A few months ago there was a slashdot discussion on this subject:
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/02/03/2137213.shtml?tid=141&ti
>d=104&tid=152
>
> I suspect that the topic of this article, MAS, will not be available until
> Debian transitions to X.org. (Somebody pleace correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> The first thing I gleaned from the discussion is that sound over X is like
> perl, not only that "TIMTOWTDI" (there is more than one way to do it) but
> they are all mutually conflicting and no single way is very adequate (no
> offense, perl fans :-).
>
> The second idea I got from the aricle and discussion, is that I don't want
> the "Gnome way" to do sound over X, or the "KDE way." I want the "X way,"
> and that is what seems to be addressed by MAS.
>
> The ultimate goal seems to be multimedia over X, but this raises
> "philosophical" and architectural issues: X is designed to make the server
> local and the client remote, which means the multimedia (recorded) data
> comes from the client and is processed (i.e. converted back into sound and
> video) at the local X server.
>
>
> On the one hand, pure network transparancy even for multimedia seems like
> the Holy Grail of networking. On the other hand, serving the converted
> sound and video data over the network reverses that concept and floods the
> network with multimedia data. It would therefore appear to "break" the X
> architectural model. How do any of these projects reconcile this with the
> "X philosphy?" Is that philosophy obsolete?
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