Re: [xougen] ANNOUNCEMENT: MAS sound extension to be included in Xouvert

[Tupshin Harper]

Steve Nickolas wrote:

> Shawn wrote:
>
> > I honestly believe things like this will trigger fast adoption by the
> > dists. Dists like to be downloaded, and users like whizbangs.
>
>
> Yes. ;)
>
> Also, while I do believe in keeping the X server relatively simple and 
> not heaping extension after extension on it, with more information 
> from nakee, I think, if it's something x.org is putting forward (MAS), 
> and it's supposedly going into a future X11 revision (i.e., X's X), 
> then hey, it will have to go in, or this will no longer be an 
> up-to-date X.
>
> Nevertheless I see the other side too, that this is just more cruft... 
> As I said to the person who suggested this, yes, I think it's cruft, 
> but if this is the way xouvert is going, so be it... It's 
> MIT-licensed, of course anyone who doesn't like the new direction can 
> fork the code, although I would hate to see either someone leaving or 
> someone forking the code over this.
>
> I say, wtf, I'll go with it.  Not to mention, having MAS will probably 
> prove useful to a certain project I have in the works... :)
>
> -uso.

I've raised issues about sound and event synchronization that are not 
easy to address without the sound layer being an X extension. Without 
addressing these issues, any criticism of MAS as cruft is null and void.

Using any existing approach, how would you (on a remote X display with 
audio capability)
1) guarantee that you could trigger a sound within 20 milliseconds of a 
corresponding visual event?
2) Trigger a visual event within 20 milliseconds of a particular *part* 
of an audio stream?


-Tupshin