Request For Comments: Snakeoil 1.2.0 (Gear Isolation)

[agent_kith]

Working on something rather interesting right now - AES67.

Specifically the virtual AES67 device from Merging Technologies. AES67 is used extensively in the commercial space for audio distribution (think Creston, SVSi, Attero). Wasn't even aware about this virtual solution until early this week, and honestly wasn't even aware Merging Technology is in the audiophile business (NADAC).
 

This will be a free feature for Isolation Gear, meaning it'd be an activated feature for the current Blind Testing firmware. When U3 is released, you'd need to:

1. Use the Ravenna upgrade kernel
   
2. Install the Ravenna module to get the closed source user space binary
   

Snakeoil will detect the Ravenna kernel and run Butler automatically. And you'd get a link to the Butler interface in the players section. Here's one of the config tabs in Butler:
 

Not entirely sure how many will be using this. I'm hoping this will be multicasting (1 source, multiple receivers), but apparently this is unicast (point to point stream)? It's all a bit confusing right now, but hopefully I can run some tests to see what it's doing.