[LAD] Running pulseaudio with jack

[Stefan Kost]

Kjetil S. Matheussen schrieb:
> Patrick Shirkey:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For those of you who are not subscribed to LAU, yesterday I had time to
>> run a test to see how easy and stable it was to run pulseaudio with jack
>> on Fedora 11.
>>
>> I had a few problems at first but after upgrading to pulseaudio-0.9.16
>> (latest dev version) I was able to successfully connect Pulseaudio to
>> Jack and play tracks with Totem. It was still a little unstable as I was
>> able to bring pulse down a few times while using the
>> gnome-volume-control applet. However jack was not affected by pulse dying.
>>
>> I did this on a standard Fedora kernel with a 2 core intel and 4 GB RAM.
>> My system load without any audio playing it was around 10%. While
>> playing a track with Totem through PA into Jack was around 20%. This
>> could be due to the visuals that were running at the same time. I was
>> able to listen to a complete 30 minute dj mix without any dropouts while
>> still using my system as usual. I am going to run a full day test of
>> audio playback today.
>>
> 
> Which kernel are  you running, and are you using a 32 or 64 bit 
> distribution?
> 
> I'm using the 32 bit distribution of fedora 11 with the latest
> fedora PAE kernel. The cpu is a 4 core intel i7, 6 GB ram.
> 
> I haven't had any problems at all with pulseaudio/jack (only using
> the packages provided by fedora), and I'm a bit surprised about
> your post. But I haven't tried totem, I'll do when I get home.
> 

Not sure how many people know. If someone does not want to run pulseaudio but
still use some gstreamer apps from time to time (totem, rythmbox etc.) -
gst-plugins-bad has jacksink and source plugins too.

Stefan