Am 23.03.2013 12:11, schrieb Toby Smithe: > Hi, > > I have a fairly free summer coming up, and thought it would be nice to > participate in GSoC. For a while I've been interested in PulseAudio, and > I have an idea for a project. I wonder if you might say whether you > think it plausible. > > I use PulseAudio's native protocol streaming quite a lot, and I've > noticed that it seems quite rudimentary. I read the code a couple of > releases back, and it seems just to stream uncompressed PCM over > TCP. With a wireless connection and multi-channel audio, this quickly > becomes impractical, with drops and latency problems. A while ago, I > looked into implementing Opus compression for the network streams, but > never had a chance. I think Opus would make the ideal codec because it > is very flexible, recently ratified as an Internet standard, and can be > remarkably lightweight (according to the official benchmarks). > > In doing these network audio, I might also be able to move on to > auxiliary tasks like improving the GUI tools for this use-case. > > Do you think this might work? I think this is a great project idea. I've been suffering from the problems you mentioned as well. However I think a lossless codec should be considered. Lossy codecs might not be acceptable for lots of people and a lossless codec might improve things sufficiently. But I can see a lossy codec being useful also for congested networks, so it could be an option. Best regards.
