From abez@csc.uvic.ca Sun Sep 22 12:47:22 2002
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: abez <abez@csc.uvic.ca>
To: dmgerman@csr.uvic.ca, gshoja@cs.uvic.ca, zastre@csc.uvic.ca
Subject: CSC499 Proposition


Intro:

	I am seeking a supervisor who either has a project which is
suitable for CSC499 and needs someone to work on it for or is willing
supervise a project I have come up with. Attached is a project idea which
I have already thought about.

	Sincerly,
		Abram Hindle

1. Purpose
	I am seeking a supervisor to supervise my CSC 499 project for the
fall semester of 2002.

2. About Me
	Abram Hindle, 0020755, GPA 8.1, Computer Science Honours.
	I am personally interested in developing audio oriented
applications as a hobby. I produce software to help with creating noise
music. I am also interested in networked applications and software
engineering.

3. Project Idea: "Abram's Unix Sound System"
		The purpose of AUSS is to provide a general interface and
utilities to enable the use of pipes and sockets to facilitate the
movement of audio between processes and programs. The general audio format
is intended to be raw 16 bit integers or raw 32 bit floating point. The
intended platform is UNIX. The use of sockets is meant to enable the
networking of the audio. By using common interfaces of pipes and sockets,
playing and recording of audio, developers are 	freed from worrying about
issues such as sound support and recording to file. Blocking of pipes and
sockets provides easy timing. Pipes and sockets also enable buffering or
lack of buffering (which ever you want).
	Example utilities would be:
		multiplexers - take a pipe from STDIN or a named pipe and
multiplex the 	audio stream over multiple servers.
		demultiplexer - a server which reads audio data from
sockets, mixes and 	outputs the audio to STDOUT.
		pipe multiplexer -  split STDIN to STDOUT/STDERR.
		player - reads STDIN and outputs to sound card.
		Configurator - due to the need to script and concurrently
run various 	applications a helper program would be helpful. Probably
would be part of the 	service manager.
		Service Manager - using sockets de-couple a lot of the
processes and configure them in realtime with possibly a graphical
interface. Named pipes and sockets enable the programs to communicate to
the service manager. The service manager would provide name lookup. Also
the service manager would help manage multiple computers as you could name
ports and computers together.

4. What I Don't Plan to Cover
	Audio Compression - could use lame (mp3) or oggenc (ogg vorbis) in
realtime with pipes OR a streamer like icecast.

5. Summary
	In essence I am looking for a supervisor with or without a project
for CSC 499 so I complete my Computer Science Honours ungraduate degree.


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