18 May
2010
18 May
'10
1:20 a.m.
Hey Albert,
On May 17, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Albert Graef wrote:
Hi Robin,
I can't get to the wiki page linked to in your previous post, so here
are some hopefully useful remarks.
really? well we had a 30 min outage this afternoon (CEST) but the site's
online:
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/tools_comparison
Robin Gareus wrote:
Thanks a lot. reading it like this makes perfect sense.
There's two missing (which were mentioned in a follow up email):
- batch (does it mean app can be called (headless) from a batch script, or that the app
itself offers batch processing)
- embed. means embedded or embeddable?
In partictular the "multi-rate",
"sync" & "async" need clarification.
- multirate: The ability to deal with synchronous streams of (audio)
data at different samplerates.
- sync: synchronous (sample-based) processing at fixed samplerate(s)
(typically audio and video).
- async: asynchronous (event-based) processing (typically MIDI, OSC and
the like).
Note that we didn't have experts for all the
mentioned programs on board
during the discussion (most notably, the supercollider people were
absent since they had a session in parallel), so it can't hurt if the
feature matrix is proofread by as many eyeballs as possible. ;-)
There's already been quite some additions:
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/doku.php?id=wiki:tools_comparison&do=revisio…
In particular: Lua-AV, Snd-RT, CLM and Fluxus have been reviewed.
Someone (84.215.119.162) recently added categories "RT" and "GC"
without documenting them :/
IMHO real-time makes sense, but I' don't think that "garbage collection"
(if that's what GC means) belongs in that table.
Anyway, step 2 (next month) includes removing undocumented and superfluous information
(eg. so far all discussed tools are x-platform).
ciao,
robin
Albert
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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
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