On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
H'mm I seem to have been very confusing in what I said. Sorry about that.
> > Well I'm sitting at a Sun desktop at the moment so I'm
> > interested but its difficult to justify too much effort in
> > this direction.
>
> How come it's hard to justify the effort? I'd be interested in the
> reasoning...
>
I meant I'M to busy to put much time in myself not that the exercise
^^^
itself is not a great idea.
--snip--
> >
> > I have used the UCL sparc versions to monitor AG sessions
> > from my desk The one issue I have seen is some Solaris sound
> > capture setups seem to impose a very long time delay. Its
> > probably worth checking manually run vic/rat works ok before
> > pushing ahead with the python stuff.
>
> It's a good idea to get the basic C/C++ based media tools verified, but that
> last sentence seems to imply there's a performance relationship between the
> media tools and python layer of the toolkit which is quite untrue. The most
> interaction that occurs is equivalent (if not exactly) forking and killing
> the media tool processes, which should transfer any performance issues from
> the python layer to the tools.
>
That implication was not intended at all. I only meant to warn that I have
had problems with the solaris sound system in the past and that it
would be prudent to check for problems in that area early on in case its
a major show-stopper.
Stephen
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