On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:50:51AM +0200, Stéphane
Letz wrote:
Le 2 août 08 à 02:29, porl sheean a écrit :
any ideas as to how long before we can hear any
info on this thing you
are working on? will it be compatible with jack? or is it possible to
expand netjackmp to allow communication between arbitrary nodes
without sending the audio signals to the master node and back out
again? i thought it was possible to do this with the netjackmp
implementation but as i said i don't know much on the actual technical
abilities of it.
netjackmp is still point to point, but a more general model would
be
interesting to develop of course.
There's an added complication to the system I'm developing
these ideas for. In this case all (identical) computers *do*
have their own sound card. The cards are word-clock synced,
but of course the jack periods are not.
A second requirement is that two or more computers must be
able to output (on their soundcard) a signal received from
the network with exact sample sync.
I doubt that it is easy over a transport protocol that doesn't have a
global absolute time reference (like ethernet).
But FireWire can do this ;). It should not be that difficult to achieve
with the current FFADO code base. At one point this worked as a
'proof-of-concept', but it is not considered a priority at the moment.
Greets,
Pieter