On 02/17/2011 06:05 PM, Daniel Worth wrote: > Personally, I would say that KXStudio has made a mistake here. There >> is no reason to run PulseAudio for this purpose. Torben wrote a >> libflashsupport-jack which routes Flash straight to JACK, and >> http://jackaudio.org/faq describes ways to get a variety of other >> desktop software to talk to JACK. I spend all day listening to >> internet radio and my own music collection via Rhythmbox, browing the >> catalog at emusic.com, watching Flash *and* working on Ardour ... all >> via JACK and all without a large, complex layer like PulseAudio in the >> middle. >> >> Some of these are not quite as robust as they should be but it would >> be far better (I think) to focus resources on making them more robust >> than introducing PulseAudio as a desktop<->JACK middle layer. >> > > I'm going to have to disagree here. falktx, the guy behind KXStudio, has > written a very useful script called pulse-jack that configures Pulseaudio > automatically to work with Jack. I have found this to work better and > require much less configuration than alsa-jack and allows me to use Skype > and Google Voice Chat for my podcast. I also use Torben's Flash Jack driver > and this setup doesn't interfere with pulseaudio or jack. There is NO way to > get the current version of Skype working with Jack without using Pulseaudio. never say never :) Older versions of skype worked just fine with ALSA-jackplug. Any version of skype works with the alsa loopback: http://alsa.opensrc.org/Index.php/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_bridge > I have spent years perfecting my podcasting setup and thanks to falktx I'm > now closer to the perfect setup than I ever have been before. I haven't had > any issues with his packages and I use it for audio everyday. I use both > KXStudio and his PPAs on top of vanilla Ubuntu and I've never been happier. > > The fact is that Pulseaudio is winning the widest adoption and thanks to the > pulse-jack script Pulseaudio works very well with jack. > > Daniel Worth > Host > The Open Source Musician Podcast > http://opensourcemusician.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
