On 12/23/2009 06:57 AM, Bob Ham wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 21:15 +0100, rosea grammostola wrote: > >> Bob Ham wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:53 +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +0000, Bob Ham wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> local sessions are a subset of the functionality provided by network >>>>> sessions >>>>> >>>>> >>>> If you want to have network transparency inside the audio framework, >>>> this perspective might be true. >>>> >>>> >>> I do want that. >>> > >> 1) The 'one app with plugins' group. >> > >> 2) The people who likes to work with different, small Jack applications >> (ams, aeolus, epichord etc.). These people are interested in a session >> handler. But they think dbus is the wrong approach, it is to limited for >> them, or it is not the right thing for the Linux platform in their opinion. >> > >> 3) Group 3 is the same as group 2, BUT they have chosen dbus as >> solution. It's the LADI group. >> > As Fons noted, there is a fourth group of people who are interested in > network-wide audio session handling, for various purposes. This is > actually the most important group as far as I'm concerned because their > goals are a superset of the second and third groups' goals. > > >> We can expect that group 3 will build a session handler for us. LADI is >> in active development and they already made some progress. >> > >> Now I'm wondering, what can we expect from group 2? >> > > From group 2 and 4, you can probably expect something. > > I have designs for an OSC-based system, JIZZ,
Interesting choice of name. The more times you say it the funnier it becomes... What were you thinking? Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd > that has been mentioned as > the successor to LASH. It exists quite clearly in my mind. I've also > made some designs on paper and put them here: > > http://pkl.net/~node/software/lash/lash-2.jpeg > > Unfortunately, I don't have the time to refine the design, produce a > protocol and implement it. I'm currently working toward an MSc degree. > It's possible that I may continue work on JIZZ at some point in the > foreseeable future after completing my MSc. It's also possible that I > may work toward a PhD, in which case it's unlikely I'll have time to > work on JIZZ, at least within a useful time frame. > > However, Florian Faber recently communicated with me privately based on > this thread and seemed to have similar ideas to mine. Particularly, > using OSC over TCP and mDNS for service advertisements. From that > communication, it also seemed as though Florian might have the time and > energy to produce something. I don't know what will come of that > though; Florian? > > Fons also has similar ideas (or did in the past.) Particularly, about > using OSC and also about focusing on the protocol rather than the > implementation. Fons has already commented on his own activity. > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
