Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 17:10:40 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cool sound tools/programs? Message-ID: <199504011710.RAA07843@star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 17:57:26 MST." <199504020057.RAA01430@trout.sri.MT.net>
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>>> Nate Williams said:
> [ Vat over a IP modem connection ]
>
> > Well VAT works over the modem it has sound compression algorithms with
> > various different rates. Read vat's documentation to see how you can
> > setup a "bridge" between your home and the Internet.
>
> If I'm already connected, will it still use compression. I don't want
> to shutdown my SLIP connection in order to run VAT.
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.
>
> > If it comforts you , one of the VAT developers uses VAT at home
> > to listen in on the Net.
>
> 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....
ee.lbl.gov:/conferencing/vat and get the BSDI binary
ftp.best.com:/pub/hasty/vat.summary Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk (Nik Clayton)
wrote a nice summary on how to get
vat up and running.
ftp.best.com:/pub/hasty/sys-vat.tar.gz patches and old sound driver
with support for vat.
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.
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 :)
Amancio
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