[nas] Writing Win9X NAS Server

[Jon Trulson]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Erik Inge Bolsø wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:48:40 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Erik Inge Bolsø <knan at mo.himolde.no>
> To: Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at peaktime.be>
> Cc: jon at radscan.com, nas at radscan.com
> Subject: Re: [nas] Writing Win9X NAS Server
> 
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> >>         Well a straight port of the NAS server to windows is probably the
> >> best way to do it, but I don't see how trying to stick it in the Xfree
> >> tree would do anything useful.  I suspect they are not interested in doing
> >> the port to winxx for us ;-)
> >
> >On the features side: I think it is very important that time be
> >synchronized between audio and graphics streams, and that requires
> >cooperation between X and NAS.
> 
> Indeed. Wasn't there once something called a X synchronization
> extension API? Or was it only a proposal that was silently forgotten in
> the mists of time?
> 

	;-) It's still there.

> >standard for network audio; but it is a chicken-and-egg case: lack of
> >acceptance because lack of a server on one important platform!
> 
> ESD has a head start here, a brave soul is reimplementing it in Java, on
> top of the Java Sound API. Search around on freshmeat, you'll find it
> there.


	A Java sound server?  Interesting...  Is a Java Xserver far
behind? ;-)

> 
> >But the
> >integration could be done as an X-Extension (and I mean on all
> >platforms! After all, if XFree can cope with umpteen different graphics
> >boards, sound should not be much more difficult!)
> 
> I'm not sure I agree. "Do one thing, and do it well..."
>

	Yes!
 
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