On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have had this idea for some time now, and would like to ask you for your
> opinions on it.
>
> There are several solutions for sound transport. Software like esound, nas,
> arts etc.
> All those things have two common problems:
> 1. They're focused on pcm devices (lacks in mixer support etc)
> 2. They're not transparent for apps, no common API.
> 3. They suffer from lags.
>
> But we have a nice alsa API, we have support for multiple cards in alsa
> itself. Now how about developing a patch for alsa-lib, and a small daemon,
> which together could create a network transparent link, so that local apps
> (like xmms, mplayer, aumix, mixer_applet, pmidi etc) could use it as an
> ordinary soundcard?
>
> It would:
> 1. support all devices alsa supports (and their pcms, sequencers and mixers)
> 2. be usable for any alsa-compatible app
> 3. not suffer from lags (as a tool for LAN networks, we maybe could get
> away with soundcard's buffer), it would be usable for applications
> like Internet telephony (gnomemeeting etc)
>
> Who would need this? Linux gets more and more office desktop computers
> under it's control. Common solution (my company implements these too) are
> xterminals, dumb boxen with Xserver.
> There is a need for convenient usage of local devices from main server.
> for graphics/keyboard/mouse we have XFree86. But no decent solution
> for sound stuff!.
>
>
> What do you think about it?
See alsa-lib/aserver . It not finished yet, but it is good start.
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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