Re: output options?

[David Potter]

On 10:29 AM 7/31/00 -0500, brent harding propounded certain bytes, to wit:
>That always will happen unless you have a multichannel card like sblive
>value. It's real easy to make it work in alsa.

No, it *won't* always happen.  EsD was designed specifically to prevent it.

And stdout output would enable many, many other functions.  I'm not sure 
why you are pushing me toward alsa... it's a wonderful system, but it 
hasn't yet grown to replace OSS.

Yes, I know that alsa supports delivery of audio content at the 
sound-system level.  And that this feature would replace the need for 
stdout in trplayer (for alsa users).  Is that any reason to deny the 
non-alsa users out there the same functionality?  The industry says 
no:  nearly every audio application I can think of has a stdout 
option:  mpg123, freemp3, sox, x11amp, the list goes on.

Stdout output should be included in trplayer!  It's low-hanging fruit: easy 
to implement and enabling for such a large variety of other functions: 
repackaging audio and distribution across a network (for transcoding 
purposes, or proxy support) , encryption of the audio content stream (a la 
SSL), audio effects processing (perhaps audio volume levelling), 
distribution to tar/gtar, many many others.

dp



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