[Jack-Devel] Ports vs Channels in JACK

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Nov 17 19:21:42 CET 2015


I have no real involvement with JACK2 whatsoever. Last I knew, empty stub
functions for the metadata API had been added by felipe coehlo (falktx) but
I know nothing more than that.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Hai Nguyen <codingforlove at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Paul and Frederick - Thank you both. This clears everything up. :)
>
> @Paul - the metadata api you mentioned, is there any plans of this coming
> to jack2?
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Frederick Gleason <
> fredg at paravelsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 20:03 57, Hai Nguyen <codingforlove at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So I was wondering what kind of mapping there is between say L and R
>> > channels and JACK ports? Or does a mapping even exists?
>>
>> Assuming that one is speaking of *audio* ports (as opposed to, say,
>> MIDI), all ports are single-channel.  Designations like ‘left’ or ‘right’
>> (or 'left-front', ‘right-rear’, etc) are up to the application layer.  JACK
>> provides the mechanism, not the policy.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
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