[nas] synchronized or redirectable remote audio?

[Jon Trulson]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Paul Fox wrote:

> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:43:36 -0500
> From: Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: Re: [nas] synchronized or redirectable remote audio? 
> 
>  > > so:  has anyone ever heard of any work done on synchronized remote
>  > > audio?  i'm thinking of some sort of lightweight protocol among the
>  > > clients that keeps them in sync during playback.
>  > > 
> 
>  ... <snip of pleasant nighttime soundtrack>...
> 
>  > 	That question has been asked before, without any resolution of
>  > course.  One thing that occurred to me would be to hack up the equivalent
>  > of the X11 XSYNC extension into NAS which might be adequate.  Of course,
>  > the ability to add extensions to NAS has long been on my 'dream' list...
> 
> what does XSYNC do?
> 

	Its an extension that allows clients to synchronize their events.  
It seems that is was mainly intended to facilitate sync'ing animations
with sound for example.  It provides various services like counters,
triggers, alarms, etc.  There's a spec available at x.org I think.


[...]

> 
> are there any existing nas "relay" agents that i could start from?  (i'm
> not sure why there would be -- it wouldn't be all that useful a program
> all by itself...)
> 

	None that I'm aware of...


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