Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-26 Thread Michael Chapman
On Thursday 26 November 2009 1:24 am, Folderol wrote: > Once it has this information it can tell the slave to do any of the > following: > perform general initialisation and set all defaults (panic!) > change textual name to '?' > set bit depth -> 8, 16, 24, ? (defa

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-26 Thread Folderol
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:44:51 +0100 Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 01:24 +, Folderol wrote: > > It's late, but I can't sleep, so... > > > set sample rate -> 44.1, 48, 96, ? (default 48) > > > If anyone can see any obvious holes in this or simplification

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 01:24 +, Folderol wrote: > It's late, but I can't sleep, so... > set sample rate -> 44.1, 48, 96, ? (default 48) > If anyone can see any obvious holes in this or simplifications please > say so. Crystals controlling inexpensive DAC'c and ADC's will

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-25 Thread Folderol
It's late, but I can't sleep, so... Refining my protocol thoughts, which I originally posted on LAU. There is one master, which would probably be the computer, but I can envisage a situation where there could be more than one computer and only one of them would be the master, the other would be a

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-25 Thread apolinaire
> > And how many of them are open standards? > > > Flo The only "usefull" would be AES50-2005 because it is royalty-free. ([..] SuperMAC provides 48 channels bi-directionally over Cat 5 cable, while HyperMAC provides up to 384 channels bi-directionally over Cat 5 or Cat 6 or fibre. The signal f

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Folderol
Wow! A lot been said since I opened my mouth :o First an apology! When I started this thread I CC'd LAU hoping to just bring interested people over. I didn't expect the cross-post deluge that followed - Sorry. I won't do it again :( For those in doubt the original discussion started over on LAU

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Kevin Cosgrove wrote: >> Yes, there is an overview over protocols here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_over_Ethernet > Seems like the latter reference is quite far ahead of the IEEE > thoughts. And how many of them are open standards? Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have tim

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Ray Rashif
Hmm..this is definitely interesting. When specs and schematics are up, if the hardware is within my budget, I'll most certainly be testing the idea. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Fons! >> In the broadcast/studio segment, transport over ethernet is already in >> use by some manufacturers. > In the segment of large fixed audio installations (airports, > train stations, cruise ships, etc.) things like Cobranet have > been in use for many years - the savings in wiring costs a

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0100, Florian Faber wrote: > > I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and > > logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard > > is (in my experience) problem free... > > A lot of companies are working on

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Hans Wilmers
Florian Faber wrote: > Atte André Jensen wrote: > > >> I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and >> logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard >> is (in my experience) problem free... >> > > A lot of companies are working on this

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Atte André Jensen wrote: > I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and > logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard > is (in my experience) problem free... A lot of companies are working on this, but for anything but a simple audio in/au