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Audio standards (Was: Re: Octal in embedded system)
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Joost Diepenmaat |
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Audio standards (Was: Re: Octal in embedded system) |
Date: |
Fri Nov 15 08:01:21 2002 |
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 06:58, David O'Toole wrote:
[...]
> It's a moot point for now because
> unfortunately, what linux audio software does exist is not very
> interoperable---divergent approaches abound in audio device API's,
> application interconnection protocols, DSP plugin interfaces, instrument
> models, timing, low-latency kernel patches, etc etc etc. Complete chaos,
> as with virtually every domain where the UNIX/GNU/OSS movement is
> experiencing growth. And I am going to make it worse with this weird
> project :-) but this is all a side issue.
[...]
Last week I was pointed to this site:
http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
Which is, as I understand it, an attempt at making an X-like standard
for network-transparent multimedia (audio and video). It has some
high-profile sponsors ( SUN and the London Symphony Orchestra amongst
others ) and an impressive feature list ( though I'm not sure if all of
them are implemented yet ).
Some highlights off the feature list:
* OS independant
* Network transparent
* 32+ bit floating point samples and support of "fixed-point" samples
* a pluggable architecture
* Realtime performance
* MIT / X licence
If they make the deadline for Release Candidate 1 (1 Jan 2003) this
might clean up quite a bit of the mess you described above - if it gets
supported that is.
Joost.