On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 11:33 -0500, Brian Dunn wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:34 -0500, Brian Dunn wrote: > > > > > >>Also, is jack realy required in this situation, or could i set up a > >>dummy pcm channel in alsa to send the audio to from mplayer and to > >>read > >>it from in ices? (asoundrc?) > >> > >> > > > >It's probably possible but why would you want to? JACK is easier. > > > >Lee > > > > > > > > > mainly desireable for efficeiency. playing a dvd in m player, running > ices, and running jackd all at the same time uses nearly 80% of my poor > little PIII 750Mhz processor. not to mention the extera 186ms of delay > requred in jackd to avoid xruns. > JACK is not going to make much of a difference there - it probably accounts for less than 1% of that CPU load. It sounds like JACK may not be running in realtime mode. Lee
