Re: sound and gnome ?

[Caolan McNamara <Caolan McNamara ul ie>]

On 30-Jan-98 Michael Fulbright wrote:
>
>The Sound section under the Architecture section on the gnome website
>was my attempt at laying out what several people here have been
>going into much greater detail about.
>
>Raster sounded like he has done the most actually research/coding on
>this problem. I'm not against using something homebrewed, but if
>NAS can be made to easily do what we're wanting it might be worth
>considering since it is a standard. 
>
>On the other hand, it would be cool to have a system where you
>could plug in components in the stream, so you could hook an FFT
>onto the final output and plot it, etc...
>
>My concern is that for games which require control over timing of
>sound events. I'll try to have a look at NAS - does anyone have a feeling
>for how much latency we could expect?
as for the exact latency involved i dont know, but theres is a version of 
doom that using nas, thats some data in favour of the practicality of 
the idea. if anyones going to look at nas id like to point out again 
that nas-p5 doesnt work correctly under linux, theres a working patched 
version at 
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/nas/
and the replacement for sndserver that unix doom uses is at
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/doom/utils/unix/nas-sndserver*
Even if nas wasnt fully up to the task to support the base protocol 
might be a nice idea, and then add whatever extra functionality was
for gnome use to it.

C.

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