On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 02:12, Benjamin Racher wrote: > > I have also been searching for a solution to IP audio tranport > > mechanisms (over ethernet) as well, but have only found cobranet and > > ethersound as Dan mentioned, both of which appear to be propietary > > formats. I experimented with using jack.udp a while back, but it seems > > like it would hardly be sufficient for transferring multiple channels of > > audio (say 16 like cobranet). Perhapse the linux community can start to > > develop and open-source set of standards that could be used for > > transporting uncompressed audio over ethernet, perhaps using regular > > ethernet adapters? > > Could we write a protocol for transporting audio that wouldn't get > > bogged down by traffic from other protocols, or would this even be a > > problem (I'm still learning about how IP works...) > probably not at this sort of performance level, besides there just is not that > much spare bandwidth! > Regards, Dan (Who has far more projects then he does time!). I'm not familiar with the details, yet, but my understanding is that the Axia Livewire system uses RTP and QOS routing to address these concerns. Basically RTP is designed for real time media and Quality of Service is used to ensure that the RTP traffic has priority over other protocols. -- Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Administrator Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia 2025 M Street, NW | Washington, DC 20036 | 202-530-4900 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact network@xxxxxxxx
