Hi! Well, there is the kde-multimedia List, where some issues regardings artsd are occasionally discussed. But the main problem is probably that there is no real maintainer right now; I used to write/maintain it, but approximately stopped about two years ago. As nobody else has taken responsibility, there is no one who consistently cares for the website, mailing list, and more importantly the codebase; although quite some people occasionally do some things.
About network transparency: its notoriously hard to setup, and even if you know how it works it usually doesn't do what you want (thats because parts of the aRts aware applications run inside artsd itself, and thus you for instance have the problem that noatun will load its mp3s from the servers file system, while you started it on the client); there are also security issues in some of the scenarios where you would want to use network transparency in (its a bad idea to run artsd as root and share it among all users: one user could compromise the system). So its usually better to use another sound server such as PolyPaudio/MAS/NAS/ ESD for network transparency, and run artsd as a client. About sound quality: the only things that you can trivially reconfigure are sampling rate and latency, and thus if you're hearing dropouts or the resampling of artsd is guilty (it does linear interpolation, which will make the sound quality worse if the sampling rate between the client and server differ much), you might correct something when changing these parameters. But as generic as you state it, it could also be the XMMS plugin code, or something else; thus it might really need some investigation at code level. Cu... Stefan On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:30:42PM +0200, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: > I wish I knew. I have some questions myself too (about network transparancy) > > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:59, Tomas Mezger wrote: > > hi norbert, > > > > is there a new list? where can i ask something like this? > > > > thankx > > > > tom > > > > Norbert van Nobelen wrote: > > >This arts list is dead. Do not expect any answer anymore. > > > > > >On Wednesday 20 October 2004 09:03, Tomas Mezger wrote: > > >>hi, > > >> > > >>i use kde and arts as sound server. i realy like it, because i can use > > >>licq and hear some music and there is no conflict with the sound! > > >> > > >>but i realy whanted to know why is the sound quality so bad while using > > >>arts and xmms. i have copiled xmms from source, and add the extra > > >>arts-plugin, because i thought this shuld be better as the rpm-version > > >>of FC2. > > >> > > >>if i use the oss output, the sound is much better!!! > > >> > > >> > > >>if anyoune can telle me how i configure arts, so tath i have better > > >>sound it would be great! > > >> > > >> > > >>have a while > > >> > > >> > > >>tom > > >> > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>Arts mailing list > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Arts mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Arts mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts > > _______________________________________________ > Arts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts -- -* Stefan Westerfeld, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP!), Hamburg/Germany KDE Developer, project infos at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde *- _______________________________________________ Arts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts
