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Old 5th June 2009
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With the recent work done to the audio system on OpenBSD, a buddy of
mine and I figured it should be easy to setup two-way voice-chat
between two OpenBSD clients using nothing more than aucat(1) and
ssh(1). As we found out, it is both very easy and very usable! We
have telephone-quality chatting working with a <= 1 second delay in
the audio (after a few minutes of chatting, this is unnoticeable).

First, a hearty thanks to Jacob Meuser and the other OpenBSD
developers who have worked hard on this recently. Your efforts are
both noticed and greatly appreciated.

Second, I have a couple of questions...

1. We, the two users chatting (users neal and ryan) have ssh accounts
on each other's machines. To voice-chat with each other, what we did
boils down to the following:

ryan# aucat -l
ryan# aucat -o - | ssh <email removed>-machine aucat -i -

User neal would do the same, only to my (ryan's) machine.
When aucat is run in server-mode ('aucat -l') it creates a socket in
"/tmp/aucat-USERID/default" where USERID is the uid of the user who
ran the command (aucat -l). For another user (neal) to bind to this
socket, we had to make this socket available to the other user, namely

ryan# grep ryan /etc/passwd
(find ryan's uid, call it RYANSID)
ryan# grep neal /etc/passwd
(find neal's uid, call it NEALSID)
ryan# aucat -l
ryan# cd /tmp/
ryan# chmod 755 aucat-RYANSID
ryan# ln -s aucat-RYANSID aucat-NEALSID

Neal would do the same on his machine, only reversed.
Question: is it possible to run aucat(1) in such a way that the socket
it creates in 'global', such that other users can connect to it?
A quick perusing of the man/archives and the source says no... but I
may be missing something.

2. After doing the above, we would both simply do the following...

ryan# aucat -b 1 -r 11000 -o - | ssh <email removed>-machine aucat -b 1 -r 11000 -i -

With the above -b and -r flags, the audio was not choppy at all, quite
high-quality (equal to telephone quality), and overall very nice. We
had about a ~1 second delay in the audio, however (neal's in Chicago,
I'm in Cincinnati... we expected this), but could any of the
developers familiar with the audio system see a way to perhaps
decrease this delay? We played with other rates (-r values), but
below 11000 the delay was about the same, and the audio became
"deeper" and more "muted". Any other options, to aucat or \
perhaps
audioctl, that one could play with to reduce this?
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