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Why bother?Why bother?Posted Feb 19, 2009 20:15 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)Parent article: FOSDEM09: RandR 1.3 and multimedia processing extensions for X
Exactly what's the point of these multimedia extensions? We already have at least one framework for audio over network (I've heard that this is the advantage of pulseaudio over e.g. esd) and I don't really see why would anyone decode e.g. MPEG4, then encode the result picture to JPEG, send over the network, then decode it again. Isn't that one decoding step lossy enough? On the other hand mediaplayers nowadays are usually able to play over network directly.
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Why bother? Posted Feb 20, 2009 11:03 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
esd gives you audio over the network. The advantage of pulseaudio over it
is its pluggability, its lower CPU consumption, its lower latencies, its huge swarms of extra features, the way it can imitate or output to virtually anything, its active development, and the fact that it generally doesn't suck.
Why bother? Posted Feb 24, 2009 3:20 UTC (Tue) by jlokier (guest, #52227) [Link]
Yet I still have to kill the PulseAudio daemon sometimes before some apps produce sound. I don't believe the hype about PA's ability to imitate everything else, because it plainly fails at it.
Why bother? Posted Feb 20, 2009 17:10 UTC (Fri) by shapr (guest, #9077) [Link]
The point is that ssh -X would one day be able to forward sound and video across the network, as if you were sitting in front of the computer itself.
Why bother? Posted Feb 23, 2009 12:04 UTC (Mon) by helge.bahmann (subscriber, #56804) [Link]
"Audio over network" works well with for example PulseAudio, but what
doesn't work is "audio+video+synchronization over network". While you could tie X+PulseAudio server close enough together to make this feasible, I suspect the result is going to be quite messy.
As for MPEG-4... the idea would of course be to provide an AVC
And last time I checked, there was no media player that could play
Why bother? Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:24 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]
Exactly. Hardly anyone would want to stream a sequence fo JPEGs over the network. Streaming of MP3/MP4/AVI/OGG/Theora right to the X-server, then decoding and playing it there, would look much more savvy and tasty. I think so.
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