Aserver / network transparency

[Ekatalog developers <developers-alsa@ekatalog.com.pl>]

Hi,

I am building xterminal networks. Nowaday, it needs sound support. I am
sick of arts/nas/esd etc. I'd like something very simple (no additional
buffering, mixing etc, lack of support in apps).

My idea is to add network transparency to alsa.
I've looked through alsa-lib and found aserver. I configured a chain to
use it. Sadly, alsamixer quickly freezes (but it works for a while), and
aplay fails with an error.

I'd like to make a contribution to alsa project. I will attempt to write
some documentation about aserver & co and make it work ok and work
through network (now it needs local unix socket).

I am completely new to alsa development (never written any app or driver
for it). What documentation should I read? What guidelines should I
comply with? I feel a bit lost in all this :).
How should the patches look like to get accepted?


bye,
Filip Zyzniewski
Ekatalog


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