[linux-audio-user] streaming dvd audio over wlan

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 11:33 -0500, Brian Dunn wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:34 -0500, Brian Dunn wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Also, is jack realy required in this situation, or could i set up a 
> >>dummy pcm channel in alsa to send the audio to from mplayer and to
> >>read 
> >>it from in ices? (asoundrc?) 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It's probably possible but why would you want to?  JACK is easier.
> >
> >Lee
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> mainly desireable for efficeiency.  playing a dvd in m player, running 
> ices, and running jackd all at the same time uses nearly 80% of my poor 
> little PIII 750Mhz processor. not to mention the extera 186ms of delay 
> requred in jackd to avoid xruns.
> 

JACK is not going to make much of a difference there - it probably
accounts for less than 1% of that CPU load.

It sounds like JACK may not be running in realtime mode.

Lee