On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
[...]
> > AFAIK, one of the important goals of Christian was to implement network
> > transparency in KAS2.
> 
> Oh, well, forgot that:
> 
> + aRts is fully network transparent
> 
> Though that doesn't exactly improve the security situation. For instance
> KOffice ceased to use CORBA combined with inet ports (using unix domain
> sockets now), because of the possible security risk.
> 
> Currently, the audioserver protocol consists of a combination of CORBA and
> TCP, while TCP is used only where necessary (raw data transport), and CORBA
> where possible, as CORBA interfaces are much much easier to maintain,
> redefine and extend than some kind of TCP based protocol.

Might it be that using Corba is one of the reasons why the performance is poor?
I cannot imagine that sending streams of whatever kind trough Corba scales
well.

For the initial volume of MP3's or whatever: make it configurable.

Kind regards,
Stefan