Steve Harris wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:54:23 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > > >>Mark Constable wrote: >> >> >> >>>Ken Dawson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>... >>>>It's almost as if there must be some way of interposing an ALSA-aware >>>>(and re-directable) loopback device for /dev/dsp. I can almost taste >>>>it, it's so close. But my poor brain sizzles before I get the taste >>>>of the solution. (or something). >>>> >>>> >>>Another similar issue is correctly capturing both the >>>incoming and outgoing streams of skype on the same machine. >>> >>> >>just taking this a bit further - has anyone experimented with >>live-jamming over skype? >> >>i've done a couple of tests, but only one-way so far (i've got my mate's >>bass at the moment, so we haven't tried live jamming). i'm pretty sure, >>though, that latency would be the killer - i do some stuff with the >>local community radio station, and me and my mate found a pretty solid >>hardware codec that wasn't being used - it plugged into any phone line >>and would send whatever you put into it (there were two line inputs and >>two microphone inputs) through the phone lines to the decoder at the >>station. >> >>when we did live broadcasts from a local club, though, i would monitor >>from the club side what was being fed back from the station's broadcast >>(just to make sure it didn't drop out) - but with the headphones on, >>listening to the band up on stage being broadcast back out to me, there >>was at least a half-beat delay (mind you, i couldn't take the headphones >>off, because this delay turned what was an average reggae band onstage >>into a dubbed-out head-freak). >> >> > >As long as your far enough apart that you cant hear each other (thats the >point, right ;) I dont think the delay is much of a problem, the latency >on skype is pretty good. I think youre more likly to hit quality >problems, its pretty good for voice, but probably not for music. > > actually, the quality of music broadcast through skype (setting the "mix" channel of a sblive to be captured) seems to be just as good as if you were hearing it locally ... i'm gonna try and have a jam with a buddy over the weekend and see how it goes ... shayne
