Please use Skype to your hearts content!! :) Why...the traffic created is "on demand" over our backbone (Level 3) so it means more billing for our company! Jam on!! R~ > > --- Shayne O'Connor <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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). >> >> even still, perhaps in an electronic music >> environment, a delay like >> this would be manageable via quantization or >> something? >> >> anyway, just because of the audio quality of skype, >> and the ability to >> access all areas of the globe, i thought this would >> be an interesting >> area worthy of research and experimentation. >> >> any thoughts? > > No clue about skype. I gotta look that up. On a > related note I do have oddcastv3-jack-3.0.3 working on > my local lan so I can stream the master L,R channels > of my mixing consol over a network to xmms or whatever > client application. It's definitely not going to cut > it for live jams but it's great for letting clients > listen to what I'm producing or mixing for them. > Having a streaming jack icecast/oddcast server is > awesome. > > I just reconfigured my network to enable port > forwarding so it's time to test the oddcast stream > over the internet. For the first time in several years > I actually have a motivation to tolerate network > administration. > > ron > >> shayne >> > > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
