On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:44:51PM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > Leonard paniq Ritter sent me a nifty patch for hearnet some time ago. I > really dig it, and I finally got around to incorporating the patch and > releasing a new version. Here's what paniq has to say about it: > > changed code so that it uses 32-voice polyphony and plays bridges / > chromatic orders. > > as an effect, you get very harmonic sounds if packet sizes on a site > are the same, and quite weird stuff if packet sizes vary. > > Go get it and see how much cooler it sounds! > > http://hans.fugal.net/src/hearnet > > > Now, this brings up a JACK question. I'm on 2.6.13-rt13 (desktop) using > PAM with the rtlimits patch. JACK starts up happily in realtime mode, > and JACK apps I start as me play together nicely. But hearnet must be > run as root to be able to sniff the network, and therefore it can't > connect to the JACK server. Is there anything I can do in hearnet code, > or anywhere else, so that I can have it talk to my existing user-started > jackd? well... you could use www.sf.net/projects/netjack to run a synced jackd as root. and let hearnet connect to that jackd. note, that i did not test running 2 jackds at once but i think this should work for different users. as netjack works very good on a 100Mbps net it should work perfect over the loopback. building netjack is not straight forward yet (ie buildsystem does not build the jack_driver, because a jack_driver needs some headers which are not installed by jack. so you should build the driver inside you jack builddir and peek how a driver is built. priority of fixing this is rather low currently. i will implement double package send and other workarounds for package loss first. oh... and this should be a really strange feedback if hearnet transforms the audiopackets into audio which is transported through the audiopackets.... ;) > > -- > Hans Fugal | If more of us valued food and cheer and > http://hans.fugal.net/ | song above hoarded gold, it would be a > http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | merrier world. > | -- J.R.R. Tolkien > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
