Temporary Audio Idea

[Sam0r]

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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ <-- acts as server and client.. will work on most OS's and supports various stream systems. Will prolly find that latency will be almost non-existant with the "LAN" being uberfast

roja
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Just played about with it, and as far as i can see, it doesnt support autio capture, which is what we need

[roja]

ah.. fair enought then.. well.. there is still the vlan idea, make use of that flower thingy.. other than that it may be worth looking into how the realVNC server connects to the various sound servers and see if we cant come up with some form of hack. If we have a look how the sound is transported by VNC then maybe we can combine that with some form of fake driver that simply passes the audio to a codec of some form, encodes and transports it to a specified client. Can't be too hard!

[kourge]

Yeah, "third-party" audio driver may be needed under Windows, just like we use OpenVPN's TAP-32 driver to use networking.
There shouldn't be any problem under Linux, since we can output audio stream to /dev/dsp

[Sam0r]

You wouldnt need a third party driver for windows, unless your on about a sound client.

Anyway... i just tried VLC, couldnt work out how to capture audio from the 'sound card' and stream it over the network to the client.

Also, i tried playing an mp3 in iTunes, was very slow, it took about 10 seconds to decode one second of audio (but obviously i didnt hear anything)

[jedavis1]

Has anyone looked at Jack Tools?

www.jackosx.com

It is supposed to be similar to Soundflower, but less overhead and very little latency. I couldn't get it to work.

Jon

[Guru3]

I think this might be coming back to the fact that (at least in my experience on windows- I'm not sure about linux having this problem), that pearpc can only upload about 160kb of data in one go, then craps out. We don't notice this doing web browsing, because we never upload enough text to notice. But, unless some shit has changed recently, we're still stuck with this issue. (Or maybe this has been something that just I have...)

[Sam0r]

What do you mean upload? Via the network?

[Guru3]

Uploading from PearPC to another computer. Yes, via the network.

[Sam0r]

Ah, never noticed any problems with uploading in v0.3

[Guru3]

Try uploading like a 3MB file or something- that's the sort of thing I can't get to work. (Which may be why all my attempts at this have been futile...)