On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:28, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:26 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > What about making some (new?) protocol for sound-over-network - > > something that *just is there* when you connect over XDMCP? Maybe > > something hooked into ALSA just to make it more complicated - like a > > "viritual soundcard device"? > > G'day, > No need for creating something new, Lennart Poettering has been working > on a replacement for ESD named Polypaudio[1]. > > It's designed to be a drop in replacement for ESD, and it's eventual > goal is for it to be adopted by the Gnome dudes as the default sound > server. > > It works quite well right now, but what's holding it back from being > included in Gnome are some technical issues on how the sound is > processed. > > Maybe this might be something the Fedora Project might be interested in > adopting at some later date (or even now if you're feeling game!). > I would say get it into extras first and if it works out I could just move it into core for FC5. I briefly looked at it but then got busy with other stuff. I didn't want to just dump ESD problems for a slew of other problems. So basically all it needs is a maintainer to go over the code and make sure it is sane and then package it up for Extras. -- J5
