On 1 November 2012 05:21, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/01/2012 04:30 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: >> >> I don't know what I'm missing, but with my setup all applications that >> are not native jack clients (e.g. flashplugin etc) connect to jack >> automatically with the alsa-jack plugin. What feature pulseaudio is >> supposed to provide here? It supposed to mix different clients in >> realtime or something fancy? In that case it does not make sense since >> it's not aware of the native jack clients. >> > > Serious audio users are going to configure there system just so in any case. > We have to be cognizant of the novice user - pulse does provide a very good > way of hot-plugging sound devices for normal desktop use. The jack-pulse > bridge simply provides another sink/source. > I think so too, supporting Pulse ON TOP OF JACK means the normal desktop environment looks the same while what you're really running is Jack. It also provides a way of insulating your Jack setup from desktop applications, just disconnect the pulse sources and sinks. > Instructions on how to setup the alsa-jack bridge is something which would > be a great addition to the wiki. I have created a starting page for Jack > here [1]. This has been taken from the Musicians guide[2] and is not meant > to replace it, but just provide a more organic way of documenting what the > community knows about setup and configuration. > For what it's worth I'm going to try and track down whatever bug is crashing Jack in the KDE Live CD install. It's not a Jam-specific problem and probably not even Pulse related. F18 KDE Phonon actually tries to integrate quite tightly with pulse too (almost more so than F16/17 gnome I think). -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
