[linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 4 07:51:00 UTC 2003


On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:15:07 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Steve Harris wrote:
> 
> > MAS itsself its not suitable for RT audio*, but I suggested that we might
> > want some MAS<->JACK interfaces for network transparent audio, and left a
> > bussiness card, they seemed enthusiastic, but I never heard back from the
> > MAS guys.
> 
> Yes, I spoke to them too at LinuxWorld and thought that a MAS driver for
> Jack would be a pretty neat thing, if one didn't care so much about
> network latency.

Agreed, for RT operation then 1494 is probably the way to go, but when you
dont care about latency (or quality*) MAS is good too.

* IIRC MAS silently resamples, so I wouldn't use it in my studio. It would
be fine for playing mp3s though.

- Steve



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