Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Two soundcards with JACK

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:40:16AM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 20:01 +0200, Johan Mattsson wrote:
> > Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> > >
> > > Johan Mattsson:
> > >>> You should run one jackd for each card and use jack_diplomat to connect
> > >>> them.
> > >>>
> > >>> Lee
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Having several instances of jack seems like the solve, I am not
> > >> interested in sharing audio between the two cards.
> > >>
> > >> What is jack_diplomat? I found nothing about it on the jack website.
> > >>
> > >> Will qjackctl work with this?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Isn't it possible to google jack-diplomat? Its jack o'quin's program.
> > >
> > > Anyway, an easier program to use could be torben hohn's alsa_connect,
> > > found inside the jacknet package. With that one, you don't have to
> > > start more than one jack server.
> >
> > I did search on google for jack-diplomat, I ask here since I did not
> > find anything useful except for a German wikipage with a dead link.
>
> Apparently can be found at:
> http://spark.woaf.net/jack_diplomat-0.70.tar.bz2
> (found link here:
> http://www.archivesat.com/JACK_developers/thread771821.htm)
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
> > Is using one instance of jackd implying jack everything must be synced?
> > If that is the case is using several instances of jack probably better
> > even if there is some way around it syncing with jacknet.
> >
> > Is jacknet netjack?

yes. and the program name is alsa_out or alsa_in
if you are not satisfied with the latency of alsa_[in|out] then
get back at me, and i explain, how to improve the latency.

alsa_[in|out] are the best solutions currently available to your
problem.

we are talking sub ms here.

-- 
torben Hohn
http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language