29 Nov
2009
29 Nov
'09
12:37 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote:
Nick Copeland:
IIRC the motivation for this was:
1) Firewire is going away on laptops
2) USB 2.0 is proprietary and non-standard
3) Because of (1) and (2), Linux Audio users will soon be left without any way to do
multichannel recording on laptops.
The original thread converged on a goal pretty quickly: an inexpensive, multi-channel
audio interface which is open hardware and software, and uses Gig Ethernet as its physical
connection method.
So, if I were going to put the goal simply: I'd like a Focusrite Saffire (or
equivalent) that runs over Ethernet, please :-) Price-wise, it'd be nice if it cost
the same or less than equivalent USB 2.0 product. Latency-wise, comparable with USB 2.0.
In terms of how many I/O, I think that was still being calculated and experimentation was
going to be required. Obviously options for 4, 8, or 16 I/O would be nice.
-ken
Adrian Knoth:
Ack, a standard ip-stream is a sensible first choise.
I'm also somewhat interested in the network
part, I feel IPv6 could help
a lot. It supports autoconfiguration and it has decent multicast
support, so it would be possible to broadcast/multicast the streams on
the net (LAN). This could be useful if you want to access the stream at
a mixing console for a life setup and simultaneously record it on a
computer.
Put another way, it would be far more compatible if this were done over
an IP stream rather than any native ethernet stream, not least it could use
any ethernet driver that linux supports rather than a small subset of them. Perhaps the project needs to be specified with
regards to its goals?
...
My goals is "just" to extend another project (industrial i/o).
What would your goals be ?
Shall we decide on a single mailing list ?