Re: [LAU] netjack1/2

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Feb 23 2010 - 09:50:23 EET

Aurelien wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:45:37PM -0500, David Santamauro wrote :
>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:49:58 +0100
>> torbenh <torbenh@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:05PM -0500, David Santamauro wrote:
>>>> After reading that last post about the distributed studio[1], it
>>>> made me think of how network transfer of 40 channels of audio into
>>>> and out of up to 6 machines is possible.
>>>>
>>>> As a simple test, I wired 2 machines over a 10/100Mb connection,
>>>> private network, 1 router and 1 switch. I fired up the tools as
>>>> described in the how-to[2] then opened up xmms, wired it to netjack
>>>> (on the client) and routed the server netjack to my main outs...
>>>> sounded great! until I noticed xruns occasionally.
>>>>
>>>> So I guess my question is simply: is netjack2 really that capable
>>>> and if so, what are the tweaks involved to get seemless audio using
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone here use netjack2 ... and if so, what is the primary
>>>> purpose?
>>> are you running the slave jackd with -S ?
>>> thats necessary.
>>> [insert some random bitching about netjack2 here]
>>>
>>>
>> Just closing this topic off in case someone stumbles upon it from an
>> internet search: I monitored my network traffic and found mountd
>> transmitted, I think every 20s, from port 771 to 2049 and that
>> coincided with my xruns. I umounted my 2 NFS drives and haven't had an
>> xrun since -- at least not with 2 channels.
>
> Actually, I re-open it!
>
> I use netjack2 for weird purposes which doesn't share any audio stream,
> actually. Only MIDI and jack_transport sync, finally.
> Though, I sometimes get xruns, which can be stopped by unloading the
> netmanager, and relaunching everything on the slave machine (which runs
> with the -S mode), and then reloading netmanager.
> Couldn't find what it came from.....

Maybe try replacing NetworkManager with wicd?

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David
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