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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: xcdplayer-2.2 - X11 CD player for Sun and SGI
- Message-ID: <uonkdl8@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 22:37:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.141125.17127@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan11.204230.3699@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1993Jan11.204230.3699@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich) writes:
- > ...
- > As for reading the CD over the network, it doesn't do it. It might be
- > an interesting feature, but there would probably be performance
- > problems (you would probably get pauses in the sound trying to put
- > 44.1K/s across the network), and it would only work on machines with
- > audio hardware (ie. 4D/35 or Indigo).
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- 44kByte/sec is trivial, less than 0.5% of ethernet bandwidth on modern
- machines. As long as your ethernet is not dead, and as long as you
- provide a few milliseconds of buffering and delay on the receiving end,
- why would you get pauses in the sound? For unidirectional sound,
- you don't care about latency, and could put horrendous amounts of
- buffering and delay, say several tens of milliseconds worth.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
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