Hello Stefan, thank you for your response: Network transparancy: Yes, it is very tough to setup, was looking into the code to see if I could figure out what it does, and then decided to use esd combined with artsd. It is still pretty tough to setup then too btw (esd works like a charm, artsd to esd requires some work depending on the release I noticed). I am using it in a pure thin client setup, so the client is not aware of many things at all, actually pretty static configured. Now adding some devices to it like usb-storage and camera in which the client again should only serve as a gateway and not as a processing point, thus making the thin client as dispensable as possible.
Anyway: arts not maintained: That is too bad. The quality of the product shows by the fact that it is able to survive without a maintainer for two years without large problems. I am already poorly involved in some other open source projects, which don't get enough attention from me however I find them higly interesting (rdesktop, some kernel discussions, a video driver in the past). Never been a maintainer and have no clue to do in a maintainer job. KDE multimedia list: I will look into that. About sound quality: My music is of too low quality, or my ears had to much already to hear quality differences (then again, it can also be my speakers which I got from somebody else because he bought better ones (-: ) Thanks. Norbert On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:25, Stefan Westerfeld wrote: > 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 -- Met vriendelijke groet, Norbert van Nobelen EduSupport Postbus 95963 2509CZ Den Haag T: 070-3280200 M: 06-43036586 F: 070-3280029 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: www.edusupport.nl B: ABN AMRO R: 47.38.00.411 _______________________________________________ Arts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts
