From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 17:25:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA16927 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 17:25:54 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA16921 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 17:25:50 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA03713; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 18:29:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 18:29:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199504020129.SAA03713@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Amancio Hasty Cc: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cool sound tools/programs? In-Reply-To: <199504011710.RAA07843@star-gate.com> References: <199504020057.RAA01430@trout.sri.MT.net> <199504011710.RAA07843@star-gate.com> Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Vat over a IP modem connection ] > VAT uses TCP/IP and/or IP Multicasting. The standard FreeBSD distribution > comes with IP multicasting enable ;hence, there is no need to > disconnect you IP connection to install and run VAT. The sound data > compression > algorithm is not related to the modem data compression or to the > IP header data compression of SLIP. Cool! It's sounding better all the time. > > Where do I find the VAT stuff? It's not in ports. > > > > VAT is not available in source form... > Perhaps someone can make a ports package which downloads vat from > ee.lbl.gov.... How about you? You sound like you already know what needs to be done, and who better qualified to do audio/video than you? *grin* ... > You may have to hack around a little with sys-vat to get it to work > with FreeBSD-2.0 mostly because the configuration files are for > FreeBSD-2.0. Even more reason to have you do the port (assuming you already have it setup on a 2.X box) > BTW: Nate you can have private conversations with your wife > by encrypting the session. This is important, at least for me, > we don't want to be listening to lover's converstations :) *grin* Well, since the only connection it will be used over is the one from my work to home, it shouldn't be any problem. Nate