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Re: Java & Realtime audio?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Jan 9 15:59:53 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:36:49 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: dank@alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Daniel,
> I'm looking for ways to deliver semi-realtime audio via the
> Web. Realaudio would be fine but for its steep pricetag
> of $150/stream. I was excited to find the source for a very interesting
> realtime audio player in http://java.sun.com/people/avh/audiotricks.html,
> but I read in comp.lang.java various complaints about sound support
> in Netscape Java being horribly broken, even for .au format data.
> Sounds like audio isn't a priority for whoever's doing the Java
> runtime.
>
> Also, uncompressed audio would kill me- I need a way to get
> strong compression. Realaudio supports this; java's standard library
> doesn't touch it.
>
> Is there hope for semirealtime audio in Java? Or are we all doomed to have
> to purchase RealAudio servers to give our users reasonable
> realtime audio?
The audio APIs in are very limited because we did not have time to design
a reasonable API that could support many audio formats and platforms.
As a result you can't do streaming audio using the applet API.
However, take a look at sun.audio in the JDK. It contains the same classes
as the alpha3 HotJava release and it will let you do a lot more audio tricks,
but it won't work in Netscape.
We want to hire a multi media engineer to fix all this stuff. Please contact
pearl@eng.sun.com if you are looking for a job in California!
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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