[linux-audio-user]Skype and internet jamming [was Howto record PCM (from realplayer)?]

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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
>>
>
>
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