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Article #522Re: DECstation audio/XMedia
From: Pete Sykes
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:31
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:31
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I agree XMedia audio does appear to be more complex than it need be for some applications. However it doesn't *need* X windows and Motif, look at the playstdin and record binaries No X required, just a running audioserver. The problem I think they tried to solve is to provide an audioservice for workstations that didn't support audio by providing a means of sharing one audi-capable workstation with the client server architecture. However I can't think of an application where I would want to have my audio remote (i.e out of earshot) RE the remote conferencing I guess the audioserver does some of it for you, but I haven't had time to do much to find out, and I don't know if it would ever track any of the standards that are emerging Pete Sykes ICBL Heriot Watt University Edinburgh
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!pete From: pete@cs.hw.ac.uk (Pete Sykes) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: DECstation audio/XMedia Message-ID: <1992Sep8.133139.25985@cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 8 Sep 92 13:31:39 GMT References: <52105@dime.cs.umass.edu> <28622@sophia.inria.fr> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator) Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Lines: 17