[LAD] FW: [piksel] The future of videojack ?

[Juuso Alasuutari]

Stephen Sinclair wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Juuso Alasuutari
> <juuso.alasuutari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  The audio callback API wouldn't need to be changed in any way. Video
>>  streaming capabilities would require adding a smallish additional API.
> 
> I hope it's not too presumptuous, since I know nothing about JACK, but
> if going to the trouble of adding video support, why not make it more
> general and allow transport of _any_ data with audio-sample accuracy?
> I can think of a couple of useful reasons for it...
> 
> (embedding OSC packets, audio-synchronized haptics, etc..)

Yes, I suppose the suggestion I posted could be about streaming 
arbitrary blobs of data. But I'd like to hear from someone who can 
actually tell if the idea is viable, I was mainly following my intuition.

Juuso