Aurelien wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:50:23PM -1000, david wrote :
>> 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?
>
> OK.
> Sorry, for the late reply, I wasn't on the good machine these last days.
>
> I'm not sure to understand what you mean. I've been googling a bit about
> wicd (which I already heard about), and I found it was kind of a network
> manager, in some ways, but I didn't see anything telling I can use it
> with netjack. Perhaps I misoriented you when typing "reloading
> netmanager", I was actually talking about:
>
> jack_load netmanager
> and
> jack_unload netmanager
Sorry, no, WICD wouldn't help that. It might help if you're having
netjack network problems because other processes on the same PC are
unnecessarily generating network traffic. Maybe. I've never used
netjack, so don't know how it might interact with other network processes.
-- David gnome@email-addr-hidden authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Sun Mar 7 00:15:02 2010
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