On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:16:19 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Please excuse the double post,
> I hit the moderator and realized I was not subscibed :-)
>
> =========
> Hi all,
> I am writing a multi-streamed audio player for an embedded linux system
> and am a little confused about what technology will accomplish what task for
> me (I've been reading up but thought that maybe some of you might easily
> point me in the right directions).
>
> - Is JACK a suitable place to implement entire audio pipelines ?
> (i.e. if I have one "jack client" for each link in the pipeline; one
> reading an mp3 file, another decoding the mp3 file and outputting
> pcm data and another one creating FFT data for other purposes etc.)
No. In particular sending FFT data over JACK will be tricky.
I would only use JACK for PCM i/o, and do everything else with some other
IPC.
> - Is ALSA capable of really "mixing" or does it only route available
> commands supported by the hardware ?
Goggle for dmix. If you care about this though, JACK is probably better.
- Steve
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