[X2Go-Dev] PulseAudio

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 10:17 +0200, Moritz Strübe wrote:
> Am 31.05.2012 09:19, Stefan Baur schrieb:
> > Do we have any chance to re-code the audio on the server into a lossy,
> > lower-quality version before transmitting it to the client?
> > I mean, we provide quie a few options for image compression, to match
> > different bandwidth limits - would a similar approach be possible for
> > audio as well? 
> 
> As long as video uses the same connection this will not help, as the
> delay is the problem, not the amount of audio data. The only way to get
> it working is to encode sound and video together..... QoS might help a
> bit, but only under certain circumstances. I'm afraid at the moment we
> have to be happy with what we have (which is way better then everything
> else :-) ).
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Despite the fact that it will not solve this problem, the idea of
compressing audio based upon bandwidth is very attractive.

I have found video on NX difficult even on a LAN.  SPICE handles this
much better. As I mentioned several times, as it matures, we may wish to
slot it in as an alternative to NX in the X2Go framework - John