Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux support for IEEE1394 mLAN?
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 18:47:19 EEST
>Current cost for a PCI 1394 card is about 150 UK pounds, and as they are
>much larger volume devices than multichannel soundcards they price is
>likely to come down. Manufacturers are starting to include them with PC's
>too. A more important point though is that a single 1394 cable can
>carry 100 audio and 100 MIDI streams without breaking sweat, which beats
>the bundle of MIDI and lightpipe cables I have to deal with at the moment.
>Not to mention the hotplugablility and the fact that it can use arbitrary
>network topologies (each mLAN device has 3 ports).
i didn't mean to sound negative about mLAN.
for audio purposes, i would want these represented by a "audio API",
not a generic firewire one. you get me the specs on the device, i'll
write an ALSA driver for them. i mean it.
--p
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