Mark Constable wrote:
Ken Dawson wrote:
> ...
> It's almost as if there must be some way of
interposing an ALSA-aware
> (and re-directable) loopback device for
/dev/dsp.
I can almost taste
> it, it's so close. But my poor brain
sizzles
before I get the taste
of the
solution. (or something).
Another similar issue is correctly capturing both
the
incoming and outgoing streams of skype on the
same
machine.
just taking this a bit further - has anyone
experimented with
live-jamming over skype?
i've done a couple of tests, but only one-way so far
(i've got my mate's
bass at the moment, so we haven't tried live
jamming). i'm pretty sure,
though, that latency would be the killer - i do some
stuff with the
local community radio station, and me and my mate
found a pretty solid
hardware codec that wasn't being used - it plugged
into any phone line
and would send whatever you put into it (there were
two line inputs and
two microphone inputs) through the phone lines to
the decoder at the
station.
when we did live broadcasts from a local club,
though, i would monitor
from the club side what was being fed back from the
station's broadcast
(just to make sure it didn't drop out) - but with
the headphones on,
listening to the band up on stage being broadcast
back out to me, there
was at least a half-beat delay (mind you, i couldn't
take the headphones
off, because this delay turned what was an average
reggae band onstage
into a dubbed-out head-freak).
even still, perhaps in an electronic music
environment, a delay like
this would be manageable via quantization or
something?
anyway, just because of the audio quality of skype,
and the ability to
access all areas of the globe, i thought this would
be an interesting
area worthy of research and experimentation.
any thoughts?
No clue about skype. I gotta look that up. On a
related note I do have oddcastv3-jack-3.0.3 working on
my local lan so I can stream the master L,R channels
of my mixing consol over a network to xmms or whatever
client application. It's definitely not going to cut
it for live jams but it's great for letting clients
listen to what I'm producing or mixing for them.
Having a streaming jack icecast/oddcast server is
awesome.
I just reconfigured my network to enable port
forwarding so it's time to test the oddcast stream
over the internet. For the first time in several years
I actually have a motivation to tolerate network
administration.
ron
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