[Jack-Devel] jackd on low memory embedded systems

[Matt Flax]

On 20/07/15 22:15, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Matt Flax <flatmax at flatmax.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for the question.
>>
>> Jack has network audio working well - this is a big bonus, as on these
>> limited systems you can't do too much audio processing as they have limited
>> resources and power.
>> Jack also uses LPC based compression over the network - which is lossless.
>> That is normally a minimum of 2 times compression.
>>
>> Can you tell me how you would approach this ? I understand that by getting
>> rid of Jack, you would free up a large amount of already limited memory on
>> these devices ... but how would you do network audio in a standard fashion ?
> There are no standards for network audio, just so we're clear. Or more
> precisely, there are so many "standards" that there are no standards.
Thats the point, it is more about what is useful for software to 
interface, rather then what protocol to use. Well mostly anyway ...

Matt