Anybody know something about IEEE 802.1 AVB ?
Il giorno mar, 24/11/2009 alle 00.05 +0100, Nick Copeland ha scritto: > > I'm also somewhat interested in the network part, I feel IPv6 could > help > > a lot. It supports autoconfiguration and it has decent multicast > > support, so it would be possible to broadcast/multicast the streams > on > > the net (LAN). This could be useful if you want to access the stream > at > > a mixing console for a life setup and simultaneously record it on a > > computer. > > Put another way, it would be far more compatible if this were done > over > an IP stream rather than any native ethernet stream, not least it > could use > any ethernet driver that linux supports rather than a small subset of > them. > > I am sure this will make a lot of the lower layer people turn away > from the > project which is unfortunate but there are a lot of issues associated > with > attempting to do this over a native ethernet connection: it would need > some > consideration to be given to data loss and recovery which are already > native > to the higher layers. > > Perhaps the project needs to be specified with regards to its goals? > If the > idea is just to have Ethernet supported as an interface then fine, > native > access is probably fine. If the idea is to have Ethernet supported as > a > transport the reusing what is already available makes a lot of sense. > To > start with, being able to use any Ethernet card already means it can > be > done cheaply. Limiting it to selected devices perhaps not so as it > would > require the purchase of specific cards. > > Anyway, to paraphrase a joke a friend made recently, he drove to a > Linux > Audio Conference where the people there said to him "what are those > round > things on the side of your car?". He said at least when we went to the > networking conferences people knowingly said "ah, I know what _they_ > are. > They're called wheels..... I've seen those before." > > Kind regards, nick > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when > they e-mail you. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
