Hey, thats an cool idea!
I would join the "unix media" foundry. Thomas Stefan Kost wrote: > > Hi there, > > Just to quickly introduce myself, as I am new to the list (and to linux/unix-audio >too), I am working since 1983 > on a audio-processing package which is called SoundFX (see http://www.sonicpulse.de) >and is avaiable form the Amiga-platform since (its > written in pure C though). Things have changed alot since then and so I'am doing >some research to make the software more > and more portable. This way I found out about this mlist and projects like ladspa, >jack and so on. > > Now to the ideas : > When browsing jack web page (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php) I found the >"How does Jack compare to...? > " a bit confusing as some of those API's are not comparable per se. Generally it is >a quite tedious task to get a > good overview about whats going on with unix (and especially linux) and audio, as >everything is quite in flow. > What I would like to suggest is to > 1. start a sourceforge foundry > name suggestions : "unix media" (other names are welcome) > 2. start a sourceforge project along with the foundry, which is aplain website >project > this way we all could easily contribute to build an informative website for >audio-development, collecting links etc. > 3. model a unified abstract architecture, so that the single projects can easily >refer to it to state in which field > they are working (see super-simple first approach in attachment). > LADSPA e.g. would be positioned in pluginAPI/effects, ALSA in ioHAL/audio, jack >probably pluginAPI/producer and pluginAPI/consumer > and so on. I belive this would clearly help new developers to choose the right >technology for their tasks. > > Stefan > -- > \|/ > <@ @> Stefan Kost private business > +-oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - > - > | __ Address Zwenkauer Str. 24 HTWK Leipzig, Fb IMN, Postfach >300066 > | /// 04277 Leipzig 04277 Leipzig > | __ /// Germany Germany > | \\\/// Phone +49341 3910483 +49341 3076101 > | \__/ EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | WWW http://www.sonicpulse.de >http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~kost/about.html > ===-=-=--=---=---------------------------------- - - - - - > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > media architecture > > Plugin API > Input HAL Output HAL > Generators/ProducersOperators/Processors.../Consumers > audio audio > video video > midi HAL-input effects HAL-output midi > network synthesis analysis network > filesystem filesystem > Timing/Synchronisation API
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