On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:47:14 -0500, Kevin Ernste <kevinernste@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > In any case, the other reason I chimed in was to thank you for your
> > > work. The newest version of the JACK video is especially well done
> > > and I think new users in particular will benefit.
> >
> > If your card doesn't support hardware mixing then just use dmix. What's
> > the problem?
>
> The problem:
>
> 1. Played Chris's JACK video. "dmix" is my "pcm.!default" in asoundrc
> and this works great, so mplayer does not block other ALSA/OSS audio.
> Other ALSA/OSS apps can still access the device.
>
> 2. Now, when his video tutorial suggested I tried starting JACK to
> follow along. It fails to connect for me whether I direct jackd to
> use to my "default", hw:0, or to my named dmix pcm directly.
>
> One solution is to pre-connect the vdeo audio to JACK via a jackplug
> or "jacklaunch", but if the video is already playing, no dice.
>
You can actually get jackd to work with dmix, you just have to use
matching ALSA parameters (default or plug:dmix or something device,
samplerate, buffersize etc) for jack and run in playback-only-mode
cheers,
Christian
Received on Thu Jan 6 08:15:09 2005
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