[Preston] ALSA Demo -- Planned and Possible Demo Items

[Garry Taylor]

It might be good to also demo lame, to convert music to mp3?
also grip is a cool tool.

Gizard

On Monday 24 May 2004 10:57 pm, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ellow,
>
> This is about the ALSA demo I will be doing next week.  I thought I
> would send you all a list of the things I have planned to show you and
> then you can say if you'd like to see something else too.
>
> Here is what I have planned...
>
> * Setting up the kernel modules (2.4.x)
> * Setting up the user-land utilities.
> * Setting up XMMS to use ALSA.
> * Using the Mixer (GUI and console)
> * Using 2 sound cards with it (I can show how to set it up but I can't
> actually demo it because even though my mobo is meant to have a sound
> chip, it doesn't, lol).
> * Playing MIDI in hardware -- which is actually undocumented :-).
>
> Here are some related things I _could_ show you -- let me know if you'd
> like to know about them...
>
> * Filter networks for sound synthesis (in GLAME)
> * mpd -- the music player daemon + web interface
> * FLAC: What it is, why you'd want to use it and how to convert it to
> Ogg and/or that other popular compressed music format.
> * netBeep -- make network-able computer music with only your PC speakers
> (would require a router and some1's laptop to make a small network
> with).  This could run stand-alone on only my desktop (but will not be
> as impressive) if the above are not available.
>
> Please reply if you'd like to see anything else, or not like to see some
> of the stuff up there.  I'll be prepared to to the optional stuff in
> case people'd rather decide on the night.
>
> bye just now,