[LAD] RESEND: Fedora 25 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; ALSA recording and playing from multiple sources - JACK?

[Philip Rhoades]

Ralf,


On 2017-09-19 17:56, Ralf Mattes wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017 09:48 CEST, Philip Rhoades
> <phil at pricom.com.au> schrieb:
> 
>> People,
>> 
>> I didn't get a response to this - can anyone help?
> 
> See below.
> 
> 
>> 
>> On 2017-09-05 14:12, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> > People,
>> >
>> > For playing from multiple sources, ALSA plus the version of .asoundrc
>> > below has been rock-solid for a couple of years now:
>> >
>> > I now want to use things like "recordmydesktop" which work fine with
>> > the mic but they do not record sound from audio or video clips that
>> > are playing eg from YouTube or local mpv etc.  So, yet again, I
>> > started to try and make sense of JACK because I was pretty sure that
>> > it could solve this problem - but I have found sound on linux has
>> > always been a major pain and messing around with configs and rebooting
> 
> 
> Sorry, but if you think you need to reboot after configuration changes
> then you might
> need to read up a bit on how things work.


I have been using Linux since the 0.9 kernels and have hardly used 
Windows since NT but I think that in comparison, it is not unreasonable 
to describe sound on Linux as having "always been a major pain" and 
rebooting sometimes being necessary to get things working again . . even 
Windows 95 was relatively painless in this regard . .


>> > etc on my big workstation is tedious so I think I will try to get
>> > something working on my laptop to begin with.
>> >
>> > Hopefully some jack gurus will have some suggestions about how to do
>> > what I want to do?  I presume it is possible?
> 
> 
> Given your goal, I'd strongly suggest you install cadence (requires
> jackd2 because
> of d-bus) and enable the alsa->jack bridge.


Thanks - I will check that out.


> You might even want to enable the
> pulseaudio->jack bridge. That's three clicks to a working audio setup.


See Subject: - no PA . .

Regards,

Phil.
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