[nas] Re: help with using sox with nas-piping sound

[Jon Trulson]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:50:57 +0200
> From: Tobias Diedrich <ranma at gmx.at>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: [nas] Re: help with using sox with nas-piping sound
> 
> Dave Richards wrote:
> 
> > I would like to suggest that it [NAS] always be backwards compatible.
> 
> AFAIK the NAS protocol is build similar to the X11 protocol. So it
> should supports extensions, but clients that don't need them should work
> with servers that don't support these extensions.
> 

	Yes - though I forsee a potential future protocol change to
support a 96Khz sampling rate...  Should be able to do this compatibly
in libaudio though... Maintaining compatibility is definitely a goal.

> > We have a gigabit switched network.  I'm just not sure if xawtv would
> > even open on an NCD terminal. I guess there is only one way to find out!
> > ;)  I'll check out the other project you mentioned, thanks.  At one
> > point I did playing a DVD remotely to the terminal.  Didn't work too
> > well!  But it was fun trying.
> 
> The biggest problem would be the terminal itself I'd guess.
> You need enough internal bandwidth for
> a) receiving at that rate
> b) redrawing a bitmap of size 640x480 at 29.97fps...
> 
> It might be ok if you go down with the resolution or you can live with
> low fps...
> 
> Reminder: 640x480 at 29.97fps is 640*480*29.97*16bpp/8bit=17.982MB/s (at 16bit
> color depth)
> 

	;-) That's going to be alot to ask for I think, unless the Gb
ethernet is connected directly to the terminal...  A reduced framerate and
maybe 320x200 might be reasonable though...


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