Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Great news for JACK & KDE
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 16:13:39 EET
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:06:28 +0100, Hartmut Z Noack wrote:
> > Anyone want to defend the use of artsd?
>
> i tend to say: "me not." but it ahhmmm... depends,
>
> 1.) would jack be "scalable" enough to run xmms and kolf with sound
> enabled at the same time on a Pentium1/166MHz as arts does with arts for
> my 9 year old Daughter ?
Depends how much ram you have - jack requires quite a lot. The cpu load is
pretty low though, for largish buffer sizes.
> 2.)would jack be as stable and powerfull than as it is when optimized
> for pro-Apps only ?
No - adding things like sample format negotiation and sample rate
conversion would seriously hurt JACK.
- Steve
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