Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

From: Hans Wilmers <hanswil@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 26 2009 - 11:29:55 EET

torbenh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote:
>
>> Florian Faber:
>>
>>> Karl Hammar wrote:
>>>
>>>> [..ethernet transports..]
>>>> And we are missing an open protocol for this.
>>>>
>>> What is wrong with netjack? It's made for point-to-point and very
>>> simple. You just have to solve the clock issue unless you want to lose
>>> bit transparency.
>>>
>> Ohh, sorry, I got the impression it was not ready. I don't mind being
>> wrong in that.
>>
>
> may i kindly ask what gave you that impression ?
> i admit that some jack versions in svn were broken for the LAN use-case
> because i am focussing on making it work for wireless and
> transcontinental internet connections.
>
> but the lan use-case it pretty trivial and doesnt need all this deadline
> machinery.
>
> if you just want to build a network soundcard, and use jack on a
> computer with that, its ready for 3 years now !!!
>
> having more than one network soundcard, and keeping stuff in sync is
> more tricky. it requires that you can control the wordclock on that
> soundcard, and you need a special version of alsa_out.c
> which instead of resampling controls the wordclock frequency.
>
>
Would it be easy to use netjack also without jack running on the network
soundcard?

/ Hans

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