Network Audio System (NAS) Related Links

Last Updated: 4/7/2007

This page provides links to various NAS documentation and audio related web sites, NAS enabled or compatible software, precompiled binaries, and other relavent things. If you know of other links that should be listed here, let me know at nas-links@radscan.com.

Contents

General Information (man pages, docs, related sites)
Software (plugins, supported software, binary dists, etc)

General Information

NAS Mailing List Archives

These can be found here.

NAS Documentation (supplied with the source distribution)

nas/

Man Pages

nas/doc/

Documentation README
Title (postscript|pdf)
X Technical Conference Overview (postscript|pdf)
X Technical Conference paper (postscript|pdf)
X Technical Conference Slides (postscript|pdf)
Audio Library API (postscript|pdf)
How to use Actions
Protocol Outline

General Linux related Sound information

http://linux-sound.org/

Vitus NAS Page (http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/nas/)

Software

Emulators/Patches/Misc

libaudiooss - says Erik Inge Bolsų: "This is the library that fools OSS programs into thinking your NAS server is just another soundcard. At least, that's the ideal." This library works with Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
esound-0.2.29-aix_NAS.patch - this patch supplied by Laurent Vivier adds NAS support to esound for AIX systems. It would probably be easy to get working on other platforms too.

Native NAS Support

Festival - The Festival Speech Synthesis System.
mpg123 - a command line MP3 player
mplayer - a multimedia player.
GAIM - a free AOL IM client
OpenOffice (StarOffice) - the (now opensourced) StarOffice Suite has built-in NAS support for the Solaris and Linux Platforms.
The Qt Library - from Trolltech supports NAS natively. You will need to pass the '-system-nas-sound' to './configure' before building.
libSDL - SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer library, now has native NAS support thanks to Erik Inge Bolsų
XAnim - the X Animation viewer
XBoing - a blockout type X game
XEmacs - XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system.
XPilot - a multiplayer client/server space warfare game

Plugins that provide NAS support

Alsaplayer - A NAS Output plugin written by Erik Inge Bolsų is now supplied with the Alsaplayer distribution.
Gstreamer - A NAS plugin written by Laurent Vivier is now supplied with the GStreamer distribution.
X MultiMedia System (XMMS). A NAS Output plugin written by Willem Monsuwe is available at ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/willem/
Wine. A NAS plugin written by Nicolas Escuder is now available with the WINE distrubution.