[pulseaudio-discuss] Ubuntu Hardy, Pulseaudio and Jack

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 11:50:10 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 01:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Sat, 23.05.09 22:31, rosea grammostola (rosea.grammostola at gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM, rosea grammostola <
> > > rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Now Iḿ wondering how to let pulseaudio nicely work together with Pulseaudio
> > > > (I know how to set up jackd).
> > 
> > This doesn't make much sense. PA is a sound server for the
> > desktop. JACK for audio production. Running both at the same time
> > seldomly makes any sense. You don't want event sounds from your window
> > manager mixed into your newly recording song.
> 
> Actually, one situation in which it WOULD make sense is when an app
> whose sound you want to record and play with has pulse support but no
> JACK support. alsa-Jack plugin is horrendous, much much worse than
> module-jack-sink/source.
> 

Another situation in which it makes sense is one like my audio production PC, where I don't have an ALSA-supported soundcard - I use FFADO and JACK. This means I can only get sound out of jack-aware applications.

I've used module-jack-sink but found that it wasn't very good. I run JACK with a latency of 0.8ms and Pulseaudio couldn't keep up.

Mark

> > 
> > If you really want to do this, then you can load "module-jack-sink"
> > and "module-jack-source" into the PA server, but this is mostly a toy
> > for niche uses and hacks. It's not intended to be used by a wider
> > audience. If you do use it you are expected to know your way
> > around. There's a bit of documentation available in the Wiki, but it's
> > most likely outdated.
> 
> QFT.
> 
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