On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > Nick Copeland: > > Adrian Knoth: > > > I'm also somewhat interested in the network part, I feel IPv6 could help > > > a lot. It supports autoconfiguration and it has decent multicast > > > support, so it would be possible to broadcast/multicast the streams on > > > the net (LAN). This could be useful if you want to access the stream at > > > a mixing console for a life setup and simultaneously record it on a > > > computer. > > > > Put another way, it would be far more compatible if this were done over > > an IP stream rather than any native ethernet stream, not least it could use > > any ethernet driver that linux supports rather than a small subset of them. > > Ack, a standard ip-stream is a sensible first choise. > > > Perhaps the project needs to be specified with regards to its goals? > ... > > My goals is "just" to extend another project (industrial i/o). > What would your goals be ? > > Shall we decide on a single mailing list ? > IIRC the motivation for this was: 1) Firewire is going away on laptops 2) USB 2.0 is proprietary and non-standard 3) Because of (1) and (2), Linux Audio users will soon be left without any way to do multichannel recording on laptops. The original thread converged on a goal pretty quickly: an inexpensive, multi-channel audio interface which is open hardware and software, and uses Gig Ethernet as its physical connection method. So, if I were going to put the goal simply: I'd like a Focusrite Saffire (or equivalent) that runs over Ethernet, please :-) Price-wise, it'd be nice if it cost the same or less than equivalent USB 2.0 product. Latency-wise, comparable with USB 2.0. In terms of how many I/O, I think that was still being calculated and experimentation was going to be required. Obviously options for 4, 8, or 16 I/O would be nice. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
