Subject: [linux-audio-dev] No IPC in LADSPA?!
From: David Slomin (david.slomin_AT_av.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 18:00:14 EEST
Whoa!
Catching up on this weekend's LAD postings, I just became aware that
LADSPA will not support IPC. I personally dislike plugins and prefer
standalone apps communicating over IPC whereever possible, since it
means more freedom for the end-user to mix and match what he
personally considers to be the best at each task. Keep in mind that
my primary interest is in low bandwidth control messages (think MIDI),
not signals, so standard IPC mechanisms normally __do__ have low
enough latency for me. Thus LADSPA has lost a lot of interest for me.
That leaves MuCoS which, as it has been mentioned, __does__ support
IPC. However, MuCoS is inherently a batch system, not streaming.
By this, I mean that it takes queues of timestamped events and
processes them in chunks, rather than delivering non-timestamped
events individually, as fast as it can.
What is the correct solution for folks like me who want to stream
non-timestamped events between different processes ASAP (not
guaranteed hard realtime, but as fast as possible)?
Div.
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