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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 00:20, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
Practically nobody uses network transparency in X, except some geeks
who remember what an X terminal was. I saw an endless progression of
various network audio servers, starting with NCD's NAS in 1989 and going
from there. There's just not a compelling application for a network
transparency of sound samples. Mind this is very different from media
streaming in general - the way, say, VideoLAN does it, by virtue
of streaming compressed over some sort of loss tolerant and congesion
aware protocol.
All kinds of people use network transparency. I use it at my
library, and I
know a number of schools that use it. I'm glad KDE and GNOME devs both see
the wisdom in having that feature.
If JACK wants to survive, it has to support media streaming. Once it
does it, it automatically becomes "too complicated", and an undergrad
somewhere starts a new network transparent audio project immediately,
thus the cycle continues.
-- Pete
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