On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:26 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
tor, 21.04.2005 kl. 19.18 skrev Pete Zaitcev:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:10:23 +1200, David Mohring <heretic(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:39 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > > Looks like infrastructure for removing esd is in place.
> > > The following prevent it:
> >
> > The esound demon ESD, clunky as it, is still currently the best way to
> > serve sound to remote X11/LTSP terminals. [...]
>
> This should not prevent us from removing dependencies on ESD, so that
> we do not have to have it installed unconditionally. The vast majority of
> users do not need it. Currently, gnome-libs and libgnomeui depend on esound.
> David wants to remove it completely, which may be extreme.
>
> -- Pete
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"?
See Proposal: Rationalizing Fedora Audio
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-October/msg00899.htm
But as for removing ESD or even arts as application sound output
options, you have to remember that each layer adds more latency and
processing overhead. ALSA -> Jack -> ESD -> Network ( yes it is
possible) works if your only serving one or two users, but ESD ->
Network does not use anything like the required overhead.
--
David Mohring <heretic(a)ihug.co.nz>