EdgyPlusOneThinclientSound

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Summary

Rationale

As thin client computing becomes more and more prevalent, users will want a richer thin client sound experience, including full and transparent mixer support, and mic inputs for voip or teaching applications. Multicast sound would also be nice for teaching applications.

Use cases

  • Danni is a teacher in a lab class. For her "Media and Internet" class, she wants her students to be able to create full multimedia presentations in OpenOffice.org Impress, with recorded sound clips from the students, who are all equiped with microphone/headsets. The students simply click on the "Sound Recorder" program under Applications->Sound and Video, adjust their mixer settings for the mic, and speak as they always would, just like they were on a "Fat" client.

  • Hans is running a German language class. He has some kind of multi-cast audio server, that allows him to play language tapes. These are multicast out across the network seamlessly, so that the server doesn't need to send the audio stream individually to each of the students. As the users sit at their thin clients, they can all hear the language tape being played.

  • Scott's a little hard of hearing in one ear, and as a result, he needs to have his right channel on his headset set about 50% higher than the left ear. He's on a thin client listening to his "Pink Floyd" OGG's in RhythmBox. He can pop open the mixer app, and set the left and right volume normally, without having to mess about with his lts.conf file.

Scope

lts-server-standalone, gstreamer, phonon

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

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