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- From: bclark@ctron.com (Bret Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: xcdplayer-2.2 - X11 CD player for Sun and SGI
- Message-ID: <34970@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:50:09 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 36
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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).
-
- There is a program on the internet called "Radio" which allows you
- to receive audio broadcast on any node from one source node using the network.
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- It uses roughly about 1% of the network transmitting 8k blocks of data.
- It was easy to modify the source to transmit larger blocks of data across the
- network (The source code is well documented). At near CD quality,
- the network saw about 5% bandwidth utilization.
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- It has been awhile since I have looked at the program, so I can't say
- exactly what I did to change the block size, but I do remember it was
- easy to do.
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- We used the program to play CDs through the network. The program does a good
- job of buffering so that there was no noticeable sound loss (unless
- there was heavy network usage).
-
- I think I downloaded the program from:
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- vab02.larc.nasa.gov 128.155.23.47
-
- Regards,
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- Bret Clark
- Cabletron Systems
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