[Jack-Devel] Jack Problems

[Thomas Brand]

On Tue, March 26, 2019 14:03, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> all sorts of things. It was discussed 15 years ago or so whetnhr the ports
> should have volume control. Unfortunately, I think someone argued against
> it, for some reason. A big mistake in my opinion. It shouldn't be hard to
> add though...
>
> Another fun project for jack would be to add a pulseaudio driver. It's
> just so messy to keep these two systems working together, so a nice
> solution would be for jack to simply output to pulseaudio.
>

I've thought about the same a few months ago.. mainly just because it
could help the initial startup, making pulse a backend like alsa and
others.

It has some merit iff the workflow must use pulse (be it for Bluetooth).

My conclusion is that at least 50% of success depends on the standard
configuration on a distro. So even if jack had a pulse backend, it won't
magically solve all issues but would allow for potentially easier startup.

Also IIUC this would work without DBus negotiation etc, one could start
jack like jackd -dpulse (and everything just works).

Greetings
Thomas