Re: [LAU] Output all audio on other computer's device?

From: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Aug 28 2012 - 09:53:13 EEST

On Tue, August 28, 2012 8:18 am, Grant wrote:
>>>> Netjack: Theres a couple of versions, research a bit for what best
>>>> fits your
>>>> requirements:
>>>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/NetJack
>>>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/NetJack2
>>>
>>> Would all of the applications with audio output on the slave that are
>>> sending the output to the master need to be jack-aware?
>>
>> there are bridging applications to allow jack and alsa applications
>> (for instance) to work together. try:
>> zita-ajbridge
>> libjackasyn0 (for oss)
>>
>> If so, is
>>> there a way to send any and all audio output from the slave to the
>>> master so that each audio application on the slave doesn't need to be
>>> aware of jack?
>>
>> sorry, i'm not sure what you mean
>
> Would something like this work in asound.conf:
>
> pcm.!default {
> type plug
> slave.pcm {
> type dmix
> ipc_key 1024
> slave {
> some-kind-of-jack-specification
> format S24_3LE
> rate 44100
> }
> }
> }
>
> The idea being that I could let all apps send audio to the default
> device and ALSA would send that audio to jack.
>

People have managed it in the past with varying degrees of success. The
standard method these days is to use pulseaudio's jack-sink over dbus.

I don't know why people still insist on making their lives more difficult
that necessary. Pulse works just fine as a jack client.

http://linux-audio.com/images/linux-audio-stack.png

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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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