Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 19:24 +, Arun Raghavan wrote: > I wouldn't look at using GStreamer in pulsecore. It wouldn't act as a > native protocol replacement. Instead, I visualise things working > something like this: > > - > C | | > l | | -- > i --->

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 16:19 +, Toby St Clere Smithe wrote: > Hi Arun, > > Thanks for your message. I'm going to reply to you first, and then reply > to David. > > Arun Raghavan writes: > > Having means of doing non-PCM streaming would definitely be desirable. > > That said, though, I'm a bit

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 16:51 +, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 18:09 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > [...] > > > The simplest idea I can think of to deal with this meaningfully is to > > > wrap a sink/source around a GStreamer pipeline to offload all that work > > > that we don't wa

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 18:09 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: [...] > > The simplest idea I can think of to deal with this meaningfully is to > > wrap a sink/source around a GStreamer pipeline to offload all that work > > that we don't want to duplicate in PulseAudio . > > > > On the sink side, we'd ho

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Hi Tanu, Tanu Kaskinen writes: > I like the idea of offloading stuff to GStreamer very much. So do I. What do you think about my idea of integrating GStreamer as tightly as possible? > Do you follow GStreamer development closely? If I've understood > correctly, GStreamer hasn't supported rewind

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Hi Arun, Thanks for your message. I'm going to reply to you first, and then reply to David. Arun Raghavan writes: > Having means of doing non-PCM streaming would definitely be desirable. > That said, though, I'm a bit wary of introducing codec and RTP > dependencies in PulseAudio (currently we

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 13:23 +, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 11:11 +, Toby Smithe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to > > participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and > > I have an idea for

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 11:11 +, Toby Smithe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to > participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and > I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you > think it plausib

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread David Henningsson
On 03/25/2013 08:57 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 25 March 2013 06:13, David Henningsson wrote: On 03/23/2013 12:11 PM, Toby Smithe wrote: becomes impractical, with drops and latency problems. A while ago, I looked into implementing Opus compression for the network streams, but never had a chanc

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 March 2013 06:13, David Henningsson wrote: > On 03/23/2013 12:11 PM, Toby Smithe wrote: >> becomes impractical, with drops and latency problems. A while ago, I >> looked into implementing Opus compression for the network streams, but >> never had a chance. I think Opus would make the ideal

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 March 2013 11:11, Toby Smithe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to > participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and > I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you > think it plausible. > > I u

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-24 Thread David Henningsson
On 03/23/2013 12:11 PM, Toby Smithe wrote: Hi, I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you think it plausible. I use PulseAudio

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Len Ovens
On Sat, March 23, 2013 5:39 pm, Toby St Clere Smithe wrote: > When I did my research into codec choice around 9 months ago, I looked > into FLAC, along with lossless codecs like Vorbis. Off the top of my > head, I can't remember the details exactly, but my criteria were quite > straightforward: f

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Hi Thomas, Thomas Martitz writes: > I think this is a great project idea. I've been suffering from the > problems you mentioned as well. However I think a lossless codec > should be considered. Lossy codecs might not be acceptable for lots of > people and a lossless codec might improve things su

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 23.03.2013 12:11, schrieb Toby Smithe: Hi, I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you think it plausible. I use PulseAudio'

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Toby Smithe
Hi, I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you think it plausible. I use PulseAudio's native protocol streaming quite a lot, and

[pulseaudio-discuss] GSoC: Call for project ideas

2013-03-19 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
Hello, I created a wiki page for this year's Google Summer of Code, including a list of project ideas (currently empty, but I'll add a couple ideas soon): http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/GSoC2013 What features are missing from PulseAudio? Propose your pet peeves as GSoC projec