[LAD] midi2tcp and tcp2midi, working prototype

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Thu Sep 6 15:54:32 CEST 2018


Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> it says it's TCP, not UDP, and it is using a connected socket which
> means TCP I do believe.

Sockets work with both TCP and UDP.

> I had thought RTP-MIDI was UDP?

RTP is specified for both TCP and UDP.

> I wonder if judicious use of UDP would improve performance by
> a substantial amount?

The only interesting case is error handling, where you can choose
between retransmission (TCP) or dropped packets (UDP).


Regards,
Clemens


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