On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:28, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:26 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> What about making some (new?) protocol for sound-over-network -
> something that *just is there* when you connect over XDMCP? Maybe
> something hooked into ALSA just to make it more complicated - like a
> "viritual soundcard device"?
G'day,
No need for creating something new, Lennart Poettering has been working
on a replacement for ESD named Polypaudio[1].
It's designed to be a drop in replacement for ESD, and it's eventual
goal is for it to be adopted by the Gnome dudes as the default sound
server.
It works quite well right now, but what's holding it back from being
included in Gnome are some technical issues on how the sound is
processed.
Maybe this might be something the Fedora Project might be interested in
adopting at some later date (or even now if you're feeling game!).
I would say get it into extras first and if it works out I could just
move it into core for FC5. I briefly looked at it but then got busy
with other stuff. I didn't want to just dump ESD problems for a slew of
other problems. So basically all it needs is a maintainer to go over
the code and make sure it is sane and then package it up for Extras.
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J5