On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: >> For some reason there is jack support in all the major video players >> and afaik it's done wrong in all of them (autoconnecting and >> disconnecting on several occasions, which renders it pretty much >> useless). >> >> My guess is that they just want to have a nice feature list... >> > > Players that rely on PortAudio, GStreamer, or PulseAudio must utilize > the backend's JACK implementation. The builders of those systems need to > understand the non-utility of how the backends are handling JACK > connectivity. OTOH, players that use JACK directly have no excuse for > sub-standard handling of the connections. > > Best, > > dp > \ No disagreements from me. However there is no education for the user of these players so somewhere along the way these nice folks start using Jack - good connections or not - and then they open something like the qjackctl message window - and then they see xruns - and then they start learning I guess. :-) The Circle of Life? - I'm Mark and I'm sticking with that story for now... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
