Re: [LAD] [LAU] Open Source Audio Interface

Len Ovens:
> I thought I would move this over here. I know there is already work being
> done on this hw wise. These thoughts are for a point to point raw
> ethernet audio transport That still allows some normal network traffic as
> well.
>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> > My thought is something like this:
> > We control all network traffic. Lets try for 4 words of audio. For sync
> > purposes, at each word boundry a short audio packet is sent of 10 channels.
> > This would be close to minimum enet packet size. Then there should be room
> > for one full size enet packet, in fact even at 100m the small sync packet
> > could contain more than 10 channels (I have basically said 10m would not be
> > supported, but if no network traffic was supported then 10m could do 3 or 4
> > channels with no word sync). So:
> > Word 1 - audio sync plus 10 tracks - one full network traffic packet
> > word 2 - audio sync plus 10 tracks - one full audio packet 40 tracks
> > split between word 1 and 2
> > wors 3 - audio sync plus 10 tracks - one full audio packet 40 tracks
> > split between word 2 and 3
> > word 4 - audio sync plus 10 tracks - one full audio packet 40 tracks
> > split between word 3 and 4
>
> Nobody commented that this could not work :) 4 samples on a 100mbit link
> is still less than one full 1500byte data packet. The reason I am thinking
> about this right now, is that my studio has been flooded :P and so I
> have no access to work on my control surface project right now.
...

Why don't you prototype it with netcat:

 Terminal 1:
$ nc -u -l -p 4000 localhost
hej
asdf
^C
$

 Terminal 2:
$ nc -u localhost 4000
hej
asdf
^C
$

Instead of two terminals, use two computers and write a sender and
a receiver program, and start debugging.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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Received on Thu Sep 11 16:15:01 2014