[linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:09:44 -0500,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> the other alternative that many of us here like rather a lot is JACK
> (http://jackit.sf.net/), which provides a different model: data
> sharing between applications, shared access to hardware,
> sample-synchronous execution of all applications, and no hardware
> parameters to be configured. it sits on top of ALSA (and potentially
> other similar hardware abstractions).

what i've thought of is to make libjack runnable as standalone without
jack server.  i know it sounds useless for serious purpose.
but, at least, people can write the application using a simple API,
and have possiblity to debug in different environment.

for example, in the standalone mode, libjack will initialize the
necessary hardware setup silenty according to the config file, so that
in the application you don't need to set up the nasty things.
(btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?)


Takashi