[nas] libao support for NAS?

[Erik Inge Bolsø]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Paul Fox wrote:
> > > it _does_ have ESD support, and apparently ESD can go remote.  has
> > > anyone compared esd and nas?
> >
> > 	I had *heard* it was a fairly simple library for playing samples,
> > and it had an endianess problem with remote hosts (non-intel).  This was
> > awhile ago so things may have changed.  How about Erik's libaudiooss?
>
>it seems to be more than that now -- when i asked the folks listed
>as libao authors about nas, they said "we all use esd for remote
>audio".

Not surprising, since it still is default with Gnome, but in
"maintenance-only" mode ... it is generally agreed by the "desktop
environment" people that ARTS is the future, I think. At least both kde
and gnome are (going to use / using) it.

LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)
<URL: http://www.ltsp.org/index.php >
on the other hand, lets you choose between using ESD or NAS on your
diskless netbooting workstation. If using NAS, it uses libaudiooss
on top automatically. Apparently, they've done this for a little while :)

> > Wouldn't that work pretty well?  Or we could just add NAS support to
> > mpg321 (or whatever)...
>
>it may well be that libaudiooss would work -- i haven't tried it.  it
>just seems like a native implementation would be cleaner, but maybe
>not.

Works fine for me, both for vorbis, mplayer and whatnot. But of course,
native support is cleaner. Haven't tobias done something like that, for
mplayer, since I think that uses libao and supports nas? It might be a
standalone plugin, of course...

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