[LAU] ecasound + jack

[Ken Restivo]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:15:04PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote:
> I'm fiddling with some tools for my own needs and to see what may
> be useful for collab interaction. Ecasound, in theory, could be
> very useful because it's readily availble, gui/distro agnostic,
> and howto usage is easy to paste in email/im/wegpage etc which
> are good qualities for a general purpose tool. I've never had the
> patience to give it a fair go and frankly, every time I try, I end
> being frustrated (just like with Jack but that's ano...)
> 
> Anyway, I found a snippet that had this recipe...
> 
>  1. Start jack from qjackctl  ( http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ )
> 
>  2. ecasound -G:jack,eca,recv -c -a:1 -i jack_generic,eca -o output.wav
>     ecasound> engine-launch
> 
>  3. Open qjackctl and connect the ports.
> 
>  If you don't want to do 3. every time, then use the patchbay feature of
>  qjackctl and have it do it automatically.
> 
> Pretty close to one thing I would like to do but I get this
> error no matter what -i (or -o) combo I try...
> 
>  ecasound: ERROR: [ECA-SESSION] : "Audio object 'jack_generic'
>  does not match any of the known audio device types or file formats.
> 
> and the same with jack_alsa and other similar options. Is it possible
> that my particular ecasound is compiled without jack support ?
> 
> Would anyone have any comments about the usefulness of ecasound
> as a general purpose audio manipulation tool ?
> 
> Is there another option that could be better ?
> 

I use jack_capture. I love it. Would that be OK?

- -ken
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHPjBUe8HF+6xeOIcRAmyrAKCV5miN6cDwQSGlOHTBsI5C7de2owCgmw52
g9k6CqGCHQZ1DeG/GNmkqG8=
=sCNB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----