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Re: JDK AudioClip completion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Sep 18 20:11:33 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:05:56 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>,
bert hobbs <bhobbs@sfhill.sfhill.org>,
"Gary M. Hewitt" <ghewitt@inc.net>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Gary,
> >Please send us some requirements that you have. Perhaps you can suggest
> >APIs for a good audio solution. Audio is pretty hard. We'd like to support
> >many audio formats, audio filters, mixing, decompression, completion
> >callbacks, looping, etc.
>
> Mr. van Hoff,
> Mr. Hobbs:
>
> Please consider supporting the RealAudio format [www.realaudio.com].
>
> As you may know, it is a format which uses a client-side audio buffer and
> streams on the server side to provide unlimited-length audio clips to
> any multimedia box equipped with their player app.
>
> Users therefore need not download the entire clip before playing it.
> A client-side buffer is created, filled and a separate client-side process
> [their player] begins playing the clip while the server continues to feed
> the audio stream to keep the buffer filled.
>
> In the month or so since I've had their player, my typical delay before
> hearing the audio [after getting to the appropriate URL connection]
> has been only 10-15 seconds. This includes one 45-minute clip I played.
>
> Please know that I am not a reseller or representative of RealAudio or
> Progressive Networks.
We would like to have enought functionality so that RealAudio decompressors
can be written in Java.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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