Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-28 Thread Simon Jenkins
Marcus Andersson wrote: Hi, what you need to figure out is how hardware can be developed by people living in different countries, the same way email/sourceforge/CVS pretty much solved the distribution problem for software. Here is just a couple of ideas. All interested developers buy a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-27 Thread Marcus Andersson
Hi, what you need to figure out is how hardware can be developed by people living in different countries, the same way email/sourceforge/CVS pretty much solved the distribution problem for software. Here is just a couple of ideas. All interested developers buy a prototype card each. You

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-26 Thread smoerk
somehow a nice idea, i only see one problem: firewire and usb audio devices are mainly used with laptops, whih normaly have only one ethernet port. if you have a desktop, you could also use a pci audio card. what about usb 2.0 audio cards? has firewire any advantage? big disadvantage with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-26 Thread Bob Knight
smoerk wrote: somehow a nice idea, i only see one problem: firewire and usb audio devices are mainly used with laptops, whih normaly have only one ethernet port. if you have a desktop, you could also use a pci audio card. A multi port wire speed switch would probably set you back about $20. In a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-26 Thread smoerk
Bob Knight wrote: smoerk wrote: somehow a nice idea, i only see one problem: firewire and usb audio devices are mainly used with laptops, whih normaly have only one ethernet port. if you have a desktop, you could also use a pci audio card. A multi port wire speed switch would probably set you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-26 Thread Simon Jenkins
Bob Knight wrote: I want an open ethernet audio device. I do not want or need to deal with pci, firewire, usb. Fair enough, and an interesting project, though personally I'm more interested in doing a firewire device. Use one of many controllers out there with a good embedded linux port and build

[linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-25 Thread Simon Jenkins
Hi all: I've been thinking some more about a prototyping/development board (not a production board) for a free open multi-channel firewire audio interface. The objective would be to keep initial development time and costs down even at the expense of pushing component costs slightly up. Here are my

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open firewire audio interface: A back-of-an-envelope prototype plan

2004-11-25 Thread Bob Knight
I want an open ethernet audio device. I do not want or need to deal with pci, firewire, usb. Use one of many controllers out there with a good embedded linux port and build in ethernet. Use a TDM or GPIO type interface for the analog side of the world. TDMoE would work just fine for audio. One