On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:48:27 -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > I am not necessarily interested in defending Artsd since I myself also > do not care much for it. What I can do is though explain that artsd > supposedly does a lot of other things that the KDE ppl seem interested > in. In other words, chances for us convincing them to switch strictly to > Jack are nil (tried before, as I'm sure some of you did as well, and > pretty much got nowhere). This way at least we get to have JACK as the > backbone of all servers and have KDE still with its architectural > solution intact. Agreed, I think this is the best thing - existing "bings and beeps" type apps are unlikly to switch to a JACK style API for the audio i/o, and if they did they wouldn't be particiaularly happy - JACK does no sample rate conversion, bit depth changes or any of that stuff (and never will if I have anything to do with it). So, the apps dont have to change thier api, but are still compatible with JACK - thats great. Hopefull it also means that when a consumer audio app underrruns it wont affect JACK, and the arts server wont block. - Steve
