Re: esd

["Yo 'Ric Dude" <ericmit ix netcom com>]

Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Yo 'Ric Dude wrote:
> 
> > > ->  I can find cool apliances for this like doing a small chat
> > > ->  app that would just connect to the listener's esd to play the
> > > ->  sound.
> > >
> > > alrady did this before in scripts :) works :)
> >
> > you:  esdrec [-b -m -r 8000] | esdcat -s their.machine.name
> > them: esdrec [-b -m -r 8000] | esdcat -s your.machine.name
> >
> > -b for 8 bit sound, -m for mono, -r 8000, to cut the sampling
> > rate to a manageable rate.  Add an ADPCM com/decom layer, (basic
> > hook reserved, needs significant fleshing out) and you could
> > probably do this over a modem, at least for speech.
> 
> What would be really nice is a generic compression plug-in system. That
> way I could choose (for example) LPC for voice, MP3 to distribute CD
> audio around my home, etc.

Mpeg layer 3 compression/decompression is pretty CPU intensive.  But 
distribution of high bandwidth content over a fairly unloaded home LAN 
isn't generally much of a problem.  If there are other relatively high 
quality, yet high speed, "open" audio compression standards out there, 
I'd love to know about it...

> Regards,
> Damien Miller
> 
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