[LAD] zita-ajbridge and aloop

[Joel Roth]

Dominique Michel wrote:
> Le Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:59:09 +0200,
> IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> a écrit :
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> > hi all,
> > 
> > (apologies if this is the wrong mailing list, but i'm currently only
> > subscribed to LAD and not LAU. anyhow:)
> > 
> > i'm having serious troubles using zita-ajbridge with alsa loopback
> > devices.
> > 
> > my basic requirement is, to allow *any* ALSA-only application to be
> > "jackified".
> > 
> > i'm on debian, and my current tests are done on i386 resp. x86_64, but
> > my target platform is armel (wandboard solo, powered by a single-core
> > ARM cortex-A9)
> > 
> > the basic problem i'm facing is, that i don't get much output.
> > occasionally i do get output (e.g. with mplayer)
> > 
> > so here's what i did:
> > 
> > # modprobe snd-aloop (with all the default parameters)
> > 
> > which gives me:
> > 
> > $ cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
> >                       HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0244000 irq 43
> >  1 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
> >                       HDA ATI SB at 0xf0240000 irq 16
> >  2 [Loopback       ]: Loopback - Loopback
> >                       Loopback 1
> >
> 
> You can setup /etc/modules.d/alsa.conf, or whatever file used by
> Debian to configure the ALSA driver, to define the Loopback as card 0.
> 
> That way, all the ALSA program will access the loopback by default.
> Of course, jackd must be running all the time for that to be useful.

Will pulseaudio accept the loopback device defined
as card 0? It would be nice to have a bone to throw
to pulseaudio. More and more of my distribution's
packages seem to depend on it, including 
that for a widely used video-conferencing client.

Joel


> Dominique
> 
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Joel Roth