On 11/12/10 21:13, Folderol wrote: > I've been watching the Etherent/AVB situation for a while now.
Where have you been looking? > What is the audio quality generally (bit depth, sample rate, noise etc.)? > I notice that, as well as stereo in & out, they quote up to 8 I2S channels. You can basically throw in whatever you want. AVB is a framework to synchronise media clocks and handling streaming by combining already known protocols and practices, with some sugar on top. > How difficult would it be to create a jack 'endpoint' and control? Once you have your environment set up, it is extremely easy. The hard part is creating an environment where AVB works. > All through, my wish has been to get away from soundcard obsolescence > (PCI?), vendor lock-in and software incompatibility. With the AVB standard > getting increasing support I believe that if any one compliant endpoint can be > supported, then eventually many others could be. You are missing one important point: Synchronized media clocks. Unless you have support for PtP and can timestamp your audio data in hardware, you can pretty much forget it - except for very simple cases. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
