[Jack-Devel] Suggestion to include loopback capability in a Jack session

[Thomas Howe]

Whoops, putting the list back in the email.
Default system output, that is.

On 31 December 2016 at 23:35, Thomas Howe <tho7maspenguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I have no idea how Jack works on MacOS. As far as I know it isn't
> possible on Linux to specify a Jack port as the default output.
>
> On 31 December 2016 at 23:02, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2016-12-31, at 2:41 PM, Thomas Howe <tho7maspenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm using the wrong terms. I mean it has its own Jack client
>> 'Firefox' whenever it runs, unlike programs like Flash which rely on
>> ALSA/PulseAudio, so it's Jack-aware. Firefox seems to lack features that
>> would let me establish a persistent connection between its Jack client and
>> another Jack client, which would generally be expected of a Jack-aware
>> program, so that's why I used "partially Jack-aware".
>>
>>
>> Hmm?
>>
>> First, you're talking about Jack/Firefox on Linux; I'm talking about
>> Jack/Firefox on MacOS.
>>
>> With that said, any program that talks to Jack through the default audio
>> out (10.9.5, when this was still possible) shows up as the program name. In
>> the case of firefox, I will see Firefox or plugin-container, depending on
>> firefox native or flash.
>>
>> But this is just using the normal audio out system on Macs; this is the
>> same system that fails on 10.10 or later (as I understand it, only programs
>> that let you explicitly select an audio device can talk to Jack on those
>> OS's; since Firefox/flash, as well as most games and other programs, only
>> talk to the default audio device, none of them can use Jack on newer Mac
>> OS's.)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31 December 2016 at 17:06, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 2016-12-30, at 7:26 PM, Thomas Howe <tho7maspenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> A loopback Jack client to intercept streams to and from partially
>>> Jack-aware programs such as SMPlayer and Firefox would be useful. Both of
>>> these programs output audio to Jack, but only to the system ports, which
>>> makes routing the audio inconvinient.
>>>
>>>
>>> When you call Firefox "partially Jack-aware", what do you mean? I can
>>> only get firefox to output to the default system audio; I can set that to
>>> Jack, but neither Firefox nor flash do anything special when playing videos
>>> / ogg files / etc.
>>>
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