[linux-audio-user] New Sound Subsystem Needed For Qt4/KDE4

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 07:40 +1000, Mark Constable wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 06:51, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > > I have no say in the matter but I would 
> > > like to see something like qjackctl ported to KDE4 and
> > > usable from within kcontrol, basically, Jack embedded into
> > > the system from the ground up.
> > 
> > This will not happen.
> 
> This is an explanantion from kde-multimedia at kde.org as to just
> why it would seem to be a problem...
> 
>  The design is basically flawed for desktop audio since it
>  delegates real-time low-latency work loads through unix
>  pipes to the audio applications. You cannot expect all
>  audio applications to run real-time

Why not?  That's how CoreAudio does it.

Lee