FOMS rocks!

[jmvalin]

I just attended FOMS last week and I have to say it was one of the most useful conference/workshop I have attended. Not only did I get to meet three new Xiph.Org people for the first time (Ralph, Mike, Tim), but I also got to discuss with James (ALSA) and Lennart (PulseAudio) and many others. We had a total of 22 people, of which 12 came from oversees for FOMS/LCA. The result: a new audio API for PulseAudio (and other systems) and a new BSD resampling library aimed at desktop audio. Although I did help a little in the organisation, most of the credit for making FOMS rock so much goes to Silvia Pfeiffer. I just hope next year's edition (Melbourne?) will be just as good!

Comments

Salut Jean-Marc!

[(Anonymous)]

I even read your blog!
What is exactly PulseAudio ?
Dominic

Re: Salut Jean-Marc!

[jmspeex.livejournal.com]

Hi Dominic! PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/) is the first sound server that doesn't suck badly. This means (to me) mainly two things: 1) you can have low latency audio with it 2) it does decent sampling rate conversion (as opposed to ESD doing linear interpolation between samples!). Starting with Feisty and FC7, we'll all be using it by default.

Re: Salut Jean-Marc!

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if we could use FlowDesigner to buid filters for PulseAudio. I am thinking more of a network builder - runner that can run dynamically loaded networks. Any idea?

Re: Salut Jean-Marc!

[(Anonymous)]

Also, any idea of how long it could take to build new FD blocks tu support the PulseAudio Inputs / Outputs?