[rdesktop-devel] Re: GSM610, MP3 now working

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Robert Sanders wrote:
> Finally!
> 
> I've coaxed the GSM610 and MP3 codecs into working for RDP sound
> transport from my Windows XP boxes.  With MP3, it's possible to choose
> a bitrate as low as 8 kbit/sec, which should be usable even over a
> modem.  

Great!

> 1. I'll soon be doing volume adjustment by scaling the samples in the
> sound driver code, rather than by adjusting the sound card's mixer.  I
> think that's the right way given a resonably powerful machine.  I
> don't want a remote Windows machine having control over my local
> machine's volume.

Personally, I would prefer using the mixer. One common support problem 
is caused by the volume beeing at zero, locally...


> 3. For the SDL output driver, I have to use pthreads (actually, SDL's
> wrappers around pthreads) to control access to shared resources.

Why is the SDL output driver interesting? What can it do, that the OSS 
driver cannot?


> I hope to have all this packaged up as a snapshot in a week or so, and
> as a patch to CVS HEAD soon after.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get
> a recent version of the sources from sourceforge's CVS server.  Is it
> being hosted elsewhere? 

No. This is the correct CVSROOT for anonymous CVS:

:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/rdesktop

It works for me right now, but I guess there might be problems during US 
Office hours.

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