Multimedia support (Re: X Developers' Summit)

[Colin Guthrie]

Helge Bahmann wrote:
>> More details are on the wiki page:
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007
> 
> Hello X developers,
> 
> I would like to get involved with X.org and its future in the area 
> of "multimedia". Maybe the X developers' summit  would be a good occasion to 
> meet and discuss ideas, if you have a slot to spare I would be happy to give 
> a short talk on what I have done and what could be done in the future.
> 
> My interest is in extending the X Window System to provide support for 
> network-transparent multimedia. To demonstrate that this is conceptually 
> viable I have written three X extensions, providing: timing support, audio 
> support, compressed media support. The extensions are minimalistic but 
> sufficient to enable many multimedia applications, including for expamle

This sounds interesting. Have you heard of/do you use internally
PulseAudio? http://pulseaudio.org/ It has good support for network
transparent sound and fairly reasonable support with end user
applications (including alsa plugin and esd compatible daemon
support).... It would be good to utilise a compatible interface if at
all possible....

Col