Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

[Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:18 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> In fact, perhaps even the page(1) command is falwed. What should've
>> happened was a next layer over rio, where /dev/draw/n/data would
>> be able to accept any kind of image encoding.
>
> i think page is a good thing.  pushing data
> translation to the edges makes programs like
> resample much simplier.  they can assume plan 9
> images.  and you don't end up linking every
> program to the same enormous library.

Ok, I buy that -- you want a canonical format and you want
multiple frontends and backends cooperating using it.
But what would such an architecture look like from
an FS perspective?

Supposed I want resample to operate on movie frames.

Thanks,
Roman.