-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 00:20, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Practically nobody uses network transparency in X, except some geeks > who remember what an X terminal was. I saw an endless progression of > various network audio servers, starting with NCD's NAS in 1989 and going > from there. There's just not a compelling application for a network > transparency of sound samples. Mind this is very different from media > streaming in general - the way, say, VideoLAN does it, by virtue > of streaming compressed over some sort of loss tolerant and congesion > aware protocol. All kinds of people use network transparency. I use it at my library, and I know a number of schools that use it. I'm glad KDE and GNOME devs both see the wisdom in having that feature. > If JACK wants to survive, it has to support media streaming. Once it > does it, it automatically becomes "too complicated", and an undergrad > somewhere starts a new network transparent audio project immediately, > thus the cycle continues. > > -- Pete - -- Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/rjune.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6+PloEoft/7GAvIRAvQ1AJ9Fd+2Z2hlUwS5DOWGez7Fpe7v5BQCeOwqh RzU2EBFhV+lKw4ys5Tj246o= =xcyU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
