[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer [PATCH] RSound plugin, KISS network audio.

[Attila Kinali]

Moin,

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:09:24 +0100
Hans-Kristian Arntzen <maister at archlinux.us> wrote:

> Network audio has bothered me for quite a while in Linux, and I have 
> made a simplistic program that allows for using networked audio. Thought 
> it might be of some use.
[...]
> I have also made an audio driver for MPlayer that acts as an rsound 
> client. Like, -ao rsound:host=<host>:port=<port>. It is in early 
> development, but it might create some interest. Patch can be found here: 
> http://maister.homelinux.org/downloads/rsound.patch

What makes your programm better than others?
If you mean simplicity, then it only slightly beats ESD.
But unlike your solution, ESD provides important measures
like actuall buffer size on the server (instead of guessing),
although it's static. And it measures network latency, which
you do not.

Note: both buffer size and latency are important measures for
MPlayer, as it syncs the video on audio.

I dont want to be negative or critisize you, but this smells a lot
like NIH, especially in a field where 1001 solutions already exist.

			Attila Kinali
 


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