Re: [xougen] ANNOUNCEMENT: MAS sound extension to be included in Xouvert

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 06:06, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> Using any existing approach, how would you (on a remote X display with 
> audio capability)
> 1) guarantee that you could trigger a sound within 20 milliseconds of a 
> corresponding visual event?
> 2) Trigger a visual event within 20 milliseconds of a particular *part* 
> of an audio stream?

Your audio output daemon uses X property notifications. It doesn't need
to be part of the X server but you would need Xsync extensions to be
able to sync to a property change rather than just time.