Hi > > I am doing some research on audio and thin clients. > > > > Personally I have only tried using thin client audio over a wireless > > link playing mp3 files using xmms and nas. The audio tended to break up > > at times which I assumed was due to the wireless link. I have a few > > questions... > > > > (1) Is anybody out there successfully playing music or whatever at the > > thin client end using NAS? > > I've done used NAS and ESD. Strangely, I've found some audio chipsets > work great with NAS, and sound horrible with ESD, while for some other > chipsets, the reverse is true. I really don't know enough about either > to guess why that is the case. > > > (2) What type of load does this put on the network? > > Haven't measured it, so no comment. > > > (3) How many thin clients have you tested playing audio simultaneously? > > Only a couple. Not enough to saturate the network. > > > I don't miss audio as I enjoy the silence, if I want music I turn on the > > radio, is audio worth bothering with for 99% of users anyway? > > I'm the same way. If I want to hear music, I turn on the radio. But, > there's plenty of times I'd like to listen to a program from NPR, and I > missed the radio broadcast, so It's nice to go to the NPR website and > play it over the internet. usually for that, I just use my laptop > running Ubuntu. > > Some times of users really need audio. Take schools, especially the > younger kids that want to play games or educational software. having > sound is pretty nice. > > My customers are business oriented, and they really have no need for > audio on the client.
My wife wants to do skype and to hear shockwave/audio on Mozilla. Audio turned out to be too hard. She has a fat client to solve the issues. So while I agree (turn on the radio!) thin clients with robust audio would address a need. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
