Re: [xougen] Adding cruft to X

[Tupshin Harper]

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sul, 2003-09-07 at 19:52, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>  
>
> > Well, we were talking on chat, and I suggested a system parallel to X, 
> > which I referred to as A, or the "A Audio System", which would run 
> > alongside X, and provide a much-needed portable sound library (it would 
> > be detected with an environment variable "SOUND", paralleling X's 
> > "DISPLAY").  But I would have it a separate module, personally...
> >    
>
> NAS, Esound, arts..
>
> We have three already thank you
>  
Agreed, that remote audio already exists, and works fine. 
However...there are disadvantages to using a system that doesn't ride 
within the X protocol. These include:
1) Prolifiration of APIs
2) Complexity of configuration (particularly firewalls, etc.)
3) Most importantly, strong synchronization. Unless the audio and 
display information travel through the same stream, and go through the 
same event handling API, there is no way to guarantee tight 
coupling(e.g. <20 milliseconds) between audio and display events.

-Tupshin