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In article <28817@sophia.inria.fr> huitema@mitsou.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.152506.24097@PA.dec.com> Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz writes:
>> In article <28622@sophia.inria.fr> huitema@mitsou.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:
>< 
>> >Hell, we wanted a simple analog/digital converter
>< >that would enable us to input output voice and we are delivered a "sound
>> >processing system" that cannot work without being intertwined with X-Window
>< >and MOTIF. 
>> 
>< Of course the audio software can be used without X and Motif if you wish
>> so, that is the whole point of using a separate audio server in the first
>< place. I agree that the toolkit that is shipped with XMedia Tools in Version
>> 1.1 in fact *is* linked to X and Motif, forcing you to use the somewhat
>< clumsier Alib interface instead. But it certainly is doable and the
>> XMedia Tools Developers Kit certainly comes with complete sample programs
>< that do all of this (without X).
>
>Except one little detail. The first thing that "audioserver" does is to try to
>connect to the local X server, and it aborts if it cannot.
>
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>Christian Huitema

One more little detail: It doesn't work. While XMedia may be a superb
tool for playing sound bites for a multimedia kiosk or such, we have not
been able to get it (Version 1.1, that is), to work in anything
approaching real-time. We need to read audio data in 22.5 ms chunks for
delay reasons and the XMedia alib interface doesn't seem to be able to
handle that type of call frequency and leave processing power for other
system chores. I have heard claims that Version 1.1 would fix that, but
have seen no working code. We share Christian Huitema frustration. The
biz.dec.* newsgroup, btw, is no help to us - from what I can tell, it's
a commercial newsgroup not available on this campus. (I'll gladly be
convinced otherwise.)
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Henning Schulzrinne  (hgschulz@cs.umass.edu)  [MIME mail welcome]
Dept. of CS and Dept. of ECE; Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
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