On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 18:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > wrote: > > I use the PC speaker for > > notifications/warnings/what ever and I use ALSA to play sound from e.g. > > a YouTube video and for pro-audio I use jackd, jackd doesn't always > > satisfy my needs, but IMO it still is the best sound server available > > for Linux. JMMV ;)! > > Could jack be used in a scenario where the sound originates from a Xen > VM (via music players, youtube, whatever) and is received by the Xen > host? (To complement XDMCP.)
Software needs to be programmed to be a jack client. Software that doesn't come with jack support usually can't be used with jack. Unfortunately the FAQs are down: "Site Down - thanks to the spam leeches The jackaudio.org website is temporarily shutdown due to a deep hack by the leeches who post pharmaceutical spam. It is not clear quite how they got in, but the penetration is sufficiently bad that the entire Drupal-based website is completely suspect and will have to be torn down and recreated. We apologize for the inconvenience, but nothing about the original site could be considered safe. The only thing that is left are the downloads for the most recent versions of JACK. We have confirmed that the tarballs were not corrupted. Current JACK1 release: version 0.124.1 MD5sum: d64e90121be8a54860b870a726fb5b5d Current JACK2 release ... coming once md5sum is established ... For people who wish to track or be involved with JACK development, our source code repositories continue to be available at GitHub which is also where you can find the bug/issue trackers for both JACK1 and JACK2." - http://jackaudio.org/ You don't need a real-time patched kernel or even a kernel with hard preemption settings to use jack, the real-time capabilities of modern vanilla kernels is good enough to use jack for many needs. I don't think it's possible to use jack to rout sound from virtual machines and even if it should be possible, I would use plain ALSA. JFTR the Ubuntu Studio developers decided to provide a combination of jack and pulseaudio. I'm absolutely against using 2 sound servers, but they have good reasons to go this way. My reasons to be against it are also good ;). I like the analogy to Lego :), but I have to add that even some software that is programmed to be a jack client, sometimes doesn't fit that good to the Lego pins of the jack soundserver. An disgusting example for an odd jack client is Audacity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1402441408.6333.31.camel@archlinux
