Hello David,

  Thank you for your answer. We will study how far the windows 
non-portability is a problem to us and will give you feedback as soon as 
possible.

Regards,

Frank Rousseau
HD3D

David Baelde a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I hope that you can use liquidsoap, it would be great. Most of what
> you need is on our roadmap for 1.0.
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Frank Rousseau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>   
>> * Savonet should be multi-platform ;
>>     
>
> Liquidsoap works on all Unices (linux, BSD, OSX) and any architecture
> as far as we know (we have users on several such configurations).
>
> Concerning Windows, it's more problematic. Some time ago, Romain used
> to prepare Windows binaries and installer. But it was a lot of work
> (we never use Windows) and there was little feedback. So he stopped.
> If somebody wants to try again, I'm sure Romain would help by
> describing his experience. All I can say is that you need a working
> OCaml environment and cygwin, and hope that Cygwin emulates the Unix
> select() call well enough, because we rely a lot on it -- more than
> when we last had a windows binary.
>
>   
>> * Multichannel audio (like 5.1) is not well handled, all channels should be 
>> filled to set a multi-channel output : if I output six tracks, I have to 
>> input six tracks, I can't give only 4 and tell Savonet that the other ones 
>> are blank.
>>     
>
> The treatment of arbitrary numbers of channels, and the conversions
> between different sources using different numbers of channels, are at
> the very beginning of my roadmap to 1.0. While I cannot give any
> estimation for 1.0, I think we'll have a reasonable support for what
> you ask before this summer. However, you must be prepared to use an
> unstable tool (unstable not in terms of crashing, hopefully, but more
> in terms of changing the way things are done).
>
> Concerning the conversions between different numbers of channels, it
> will probably be done using an explicit operator. The operator that
> adds blank channels is trivial to write, but it would be useless in
> the current version of liq where it is impossible to manipulate
> heterogeneous formats.
>
>   
>> * Operators should work for multichannel edition.
>>     
>
> Once there is a core support for the notion of format, we'll be able
> to precisely track which operators work on an arbitrary number of
> channels or not.
>
> I suggest that you start playing with liquidsoap only on stereo files,
> to get an idea of how it works and what you need exactly. Starting
> next month, we'll add more multi-format support and you'll be able to
> experiment with it quite quickly.
>
> I understand that you may not be used to work like that. We're only
> volunteers, but we're reactive: don't hesitate to mail us any
> question.
>
> I'll send mail(s) to the list on of these days to collect user wishes
> about the new 1.0 features, notably concerning multiple channels: stay
> tuned!
>
>   
>> Moreover, HD3D will try (we don't know OCAML) to provide new
>> features to savonet project like upmix, dowmix...
>>     
>
> That would be sweet. We're very open to welcome new developpers.
>   


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