On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 07:37, Jim McQuillan wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, John Nicholls wrote: > > (1) Is anybody out there successfully playing music or whatever at the > > thin client end using NAS? > > I've done used NAS and ESD. Strangely, I've found some audio chipsets > work great with NAS, and sound horrible with ESD, while for some other > chipsets, the reverse is true. I really don't know enough about either > to guess why that is the case.
I have been experimenting with USB audio, using a Logitech Premium USB Headset 350, the audio quality is excellent. So far I have only tested using madplay running locally, playing MP3's and NX as the remote desktop. I will report back with the results of further testing using NAS and ESD over the next few days. > > > > (2) What type of load does this put on the network? > > Haven't measured it, so no comment. My gut feeling is that audio is perhaps best used as a local application in a thin client environment, probably mostly useful for VOIP as per the recent article on LTSP and call centres in Linux Journal > > (3) How many thin clients have you tested playing audio simultaneously? > > Only a couple. Not enough to saturate the network. Anyone else out there using audio that might be able to enlighten us? > > I don't miss audio as I enjoy the silence, if I want music I turn on the > > radio, is audio worth bothering with for 99% of users anyway? > > I'm the same way. If I want to hear music, I turn on the radio. But, > there's plenty of times I'd like to listen to a program from NPR, and I > missed the radio broadcast, so It's nice to go to the NPR website and > play it over the internet. usually for that, I just use my laptop > running Ubuntu. Best tool for the job :^) > Some times of users really need audio. Take schools, especially the > younger kids that want to play games or educational software. having > sound is pretty nice. I know that LTSP is really catching on out there, but I wonder how many people are really playing with audio. I think most users are happy that LTSP just works well for day to day applications. On the other hand it would be nice to know how many kids could be using sound at the same time before the link is saturated. > My customers are business oriented, and they really have no need for > audio on the client. I think that's probably going to be the situation for 99% of users. Thanks Jim, John > Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "It said Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2000 or better, so I installed Linux" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
