6 Oct
2014
6 Oct
'14
3:39 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Reuben Martin wrote:
On Saturday, October 04, 2014 03:37:10 PM Len Ovens
wrote:
The AES67 looks to provide gateway nodes for the various systems. It has some
It sounds like every box will be usable as a gateway and that it would be
possible not to use a gateway but just use the audio where needed.
However, I think you are right that a gateway style of use is what will
happen. Most AoIP boxes that I have read about seem to support many more
streams than they have HW I/O.
inherent limitations, but for for the scope of Linux
Audio I think it will be
sufficient for what most people would want to do with it.
I think the limitations may actually be a good thing for Linux. As with
most things, Linux tends to react to what is out there. AES67 would give
Linux audio a way forward in Audio IF for (semi)pro audio HW. USB has
improved a great deal, but seems to suffer some of it's own limitations.
It seems that Most AoIP boxes will allow working with a web IF to control
all routing, internal dsp, mixing etc. Many of them also seem to deal with
MIDI over IP as a control mechanism too (though the MIDIoIP is not always
anything standard) some of them having MIDI ports just for that.
It is not the perfect solution, but it sounds way better than the current
ALSA solutions where just being able to see the I/O ports means it is
supported. Very few offer even routing.
extra support
which costs money. The aes67 document does suggest some of
the discovery types available:
Bonjour
SAP
Axia Discovery Protocol
Wheatstone WheatnetIP Discovery Protocol
Bonjour is just the apple branding of zeroconf. It's not really attached to
apple. I think it would offer the most robust solution. In my experience SAP is
very slow to propagate. There's also SLP which almost nobody uses anymore. As
well as UPnP / SSDP, which I hate, but would integrate well with HTML based
control messaging. From a Linux POV, using whatever HW someone else has
already built, This
does not matter in the end. Something will end up getting used
and Linux
will have to deal with it at that time. On the other hand, most Linux
studios are small, using an audio IF that isin the same room as the
computer. AoIP will allow having more than one IF in more than one room
and be easy to use in a static manner. That is, it may be a pain to set
up, but once set up, it will just work.
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Len Ovens
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