[Uni-verse] Long post about everyting sound and more.

[Gert Svensson]

I haven't seen the previous mail you refer to. Could you please send it 
once more?

Best Regards
Gert

Eskil Steenberg wrote:

> Hi
>
> Regarding the sound system, As you may know i have been traveling a 
> bit and have had the time ti think this thing over.
>
> I sent out a API  to the mailing list and the latest version of verse 
> also has this API (although not fully implemented under the hood), 
> still I havent got any response on an issue i conceived as "hot". 
> there are how ever some thing i im beginning to doubt, First of all 
> the time stamps, since most of verse doesnt have time stamps having 
> sound time stamps will not sync the sound with the graphics. Next, to 
> use time stamps requires you to have more buffering of the sound 
> introducing latency. And then again each sound command has its own 
> length and each channel has its own frequency. shuldent the different 
> commands be merged by frequency not time stamp?
>
> Then again comes the storage of sound:
>
> I think we need storage of sound, but not for the same reasons as 
> discussed before. I think we need sound "assets" to be able to have 
> two sound editing apps like  CoolEdit and WaveLab work together on the 
> same sound clip just like Maya and Max on a mesh. Again tis is a move 
> to accommodate the content creation aspect of verse rather then the VR 
> aspect. For live sound we keep the streaming sound. We would not add 
> any functionality to trigger the asset sounds. if on wants to play a 
> asset sound one subscribes to it and then pipes it back to verse threw 
> the streaming channels. Why? because clients can not be expected to 
> down load large sets of clips they have o idea if they ever will be 
> triggered. My guess is that i would get a lot of flack over that but i 
> think its the right thing to do. It also avoids over complicating 
> sound players who would have to be able to play both clips and streams.
>
> None of this makes client development any simpler at all, quite the 
> opposite, but it enables verse to be used for more things.
>
> Cheers
>
> E
>
>
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