On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:16:19 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Please excuse the double post, > I hit the moderator and realized I was not subscibed :-) > > ========= > Hi all, > I am writing a multi-streamed audio player for an embedded linux system > and am a little confused about what technology will accomplish what task for > me (I've been reading up but thought that maybe some of you might easily > point me in the right directions). > > - Is JACK a suitable place to implement entire audio pipelines ? > (i.e. if I have one "jack client" for each link in the pipeline; one > reading an mp3 file, another decoding the mp3 file and outputting > pcm data and another one creating FFT data for other purposes etc.) No. In particular sending FFT data over JACK will be tricky. I would only use JACK for PCM i/o, and do everything else with some other IPC. > - Is ALSA capable of really "mixing" or does it only route available > commands supported by the hardware ? Goggle for dmix. If you care about this though, JACK is probably better. - Steve
