> FWIW, it would be really nice to see some united effort to
> jackify some of the other critical Linux audio apps even if
> their original authors do not feel like that is one of
> their priorities
People who start to write an audio application have a
difficult decicion to do: Which soundsystem to use?
Because all this mess about audio leads in the following:
* An author of 'professional grade' audio applications will
make his application an JACK and perhaps additionally an ALSA
application
* A KDE programmer will make his application an artsd
application
* A Gnome programmer will make his application an esound
application
* Others will make their application an ALSA application
* People who want their application to run on other unixes too
will make their application an OSS application (see the
commercials like real or Skype)
There is the example JACK capture client which is a good
starting point for programming newbies.
What would really be useful would be some example code in the
ALSA wiki showing how to create an application which is
jackified but even can play and record via an ALSA DMIX
device and optionally has further input/output plugins for
esound, artsd and gstreamer. And which can automatically
detect the audio subsystem to use *sigh* ;-) .
Best regards
ce
