From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sound in Emacs
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:53:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=50j9g8+eFKb8-sODy263Gf2zDAdHLdbWFSJyYYYT-FTR7RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8AAF3E.7050600@swipnet.se>
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> joakim@verona.se skrev 2011-10-03 23:04:
>
>> And we also of course have EMMS. The thing, though, is that it is pretty
>> seamless to just use an external binary to play the sound, unlike having
>> to start an external binary to watch an image. So my vote would be on
>> improving EMMS.
>>
>
> If you just are out to get a more fancy beep, starting a new external binary
> for every beep may not be so seamless.
>
> Jan D.
>
>
>
>
As someone who makes use of sound from within emacs quite extensively
(emacspeak user), I can confirm that using exgternal binaries to play
sound works quite well. However, depending on what you need, it does
have some limitations. For example, if it is just for a 'new beep',
you can get lag or other issues when lots of beeps are requested at
the same time.
I think the main issue with extending support for sound within emacs
will centre around the amount of variation in sound architectures used
by the various platforms emacs runs on. While there are libraries like
portaudio, these can introduce their own problems. I've run into
significant problems with such compatibility libraries and have
frequently found they can adversely impact on
performance/respnsiveness.
To answer the question whether to enhacne/extend sound support, we
probably need to define what we mean - do we mean better 'beeps' or do
we mean the ability to play mp3/ogg files form dired similar to how we
view images or do we mean something else.
One thing which I have thought about is whether there would be any
benefit from a dbus type interface to external binaries to render
sound files.
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 19:46 Sound in Emacs Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-03 19:50 ` Julien Danjou
2011-10-03 21:04 ` joakim
2011-10-04 7:01 ` Jan D.
2011-10-04 22:53 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2011-10-05 0:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-05 0:41 ` chad
2011-10-05 1:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-08 14:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-10-04 23:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-06 7:02 ` andersvi
2011-10-06 7:31 ` joakim
2011-10-06 9:17 ` andersvi
2011-10-06 10:22 ` joakim
2011-10-06 13:29 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-06 15:37 ` Nix
2011-10-06 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-06 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 18:27 ` Nix
2011-10-06 16:42 ` andersvi
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