Krad Radio Nomenclature / Formal Definition / Brainstorm

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Units - May be or have subunits
 Controls - Changes one or more parameters, and/or causes an operation
 Parameter - A user controllable value of a unit, has a datatype and in some cases value range
 Indicator - A read only value of a unit
 
Groups - Units can be in zero or more groups, groups are also units
Tags - Units can have zero or more tags, allways text
Operation - May add or remove units in addtion to changing parameters

Examples:

Top level unit: station
Primary Units: Mixer, Compositor
Subunits: Portgroup, Videoport, Sprite, etc
Controls/Parameters: Volume, Bitrate
Operation Controls: Adding a portgroup
Indicators: Recording Length, Peak Level
Groups: Mixer Buses, Compositor Layers


Unit List:

Station
 Mixer
 Compositor
 Transponder

Station, Mixer, Compositor, Transponder units are single instance are not members of any group.



Mixer:
 Subunits:
  Portgroup
 Parameters:
  Sample Rate - Int
 OpControls:
  Add Portgroup
  Remove Portgroup
 
Compositor:
 Subunits:
  Videoport
  Sprite
  Text
  Vector
 Parameters:
  Resolution
  Frame Rate
  
Transponder:
 Subunits:
  Recorder (Recording to disk)
  Player (Reading from disk)
  Transmitter (handles outgoing stream connection requests, transmissions) 
  Receiver (handles incoming stream connection requests, reception)
  Video Encoder
  Video Decoder
  Audio Encoder
  Audio Decoder
  Muxer
  Demuxer



Compositor Subunits:
  Videoport - Sprite - Text - Vector

  Shared Controls:

    x
    y
    z
    width
    height
    rotation
    opacity
    xscale
    yscale


    text:
      font
      color

    vector
      type
      color

    sprite
      filename
      animation frame rate

    videoport
      source_width
      source_height
      source framerate numerator
      source framerate denominator
      source link