Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-29 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On 09/29/2014 05:37 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Len Ovens > wrote: > > “Unfortunately, it’s a significant weakness in AES67, because > choosing one network over another is a big investment decision for > pro-audio equipmen

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-29 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > “Unfortunately, it’s a significant weakness in AES67, because choosing > one network over another is a big investment decision for pro-audio > equipment manufacturers. It remains to seen how discovery sorts itself out.” > welcome to what kille

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-29 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Reuben Martin wrote: On Sunday, September 28, 2014 08:52:10 AM Len Ovens wrote: Yet Focusrite sells a RedNet PCIe card for around $800... one hopes it has more on it than an ethernet port A lot of the work is offloaded onto hardware rather than CPU, so it can provide more

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: I am looking forward to testing Fons' n2jbridge jack backend. But do you have anything to connect it to ? Yes. Though what I have right now would not make it make sense. What I want to d

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Reuben Martin
On Sunday, September 28, 2014 08:52:10 AM Len Ovens wrote: > Yet Focusrite sells a RedNet PCIe > card for around $800... one hopes it has more on it than an ethernet port A lot of the work is offloaded onto hardware rather than CPU, so it can provide more stability and deterministic latency. It a

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > I am looking forward to testing Fons' n2jbridge jack backend. But do you have anything to connect it to ? A backend using the njbridge format makes sense only when connected to some hardware audio interface (analog or digital), or to

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: version available from another party). Yet Focusrite sells a RedNet PCIe card for around $800... one hopes it has more on it than an ethernet port :) That looks like a sound card to the compute

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > version available from another party). Yet Focusrite sells a RedNet > PCIe card for around $800... one hopes it has more on it than an > ethernet port :) That looks like a sound card to the computer. This Actually, it does not. It's a

Re: [LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Len Ovens wrote: Focusrite's RedNet series of interfaces uses Dante as the transport protocol. Going to the Dante home page I find that an audio driver (mac/win) is available for $30 or so (there is apparently a linux version available from another party). Yet Focusrite se

[LAD] Audio over net - an observation

2014-09-28 Thread Len Ovens
Focusrite's RedNet series of interfaces uses Dante as the transport protocol. Going to the Dante home page I find that an audio driver (mac/win) is available for $30 or so (there is apparently a linux version available from another party). Yet Focusrite sells a RedNet PCIe card for around $800.