[LAU] Jack aware audio player for ipod

Pieter Palmers pieterp at joow.be
Mon Oct 27 05:26:11 EDT 2008


Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2008 schrieb Chris Hallinan:
>> Now that I have your attention :) can I direct the conversation back to one
>> of the original question: is it possible to run Jackd  (via qjackctl,
>> preferrably) with support for both freebob and alsa, so that, for example,
>> I can route some audio streams to my FA-101 (via freebob/firewire) and
>> others to my ALSA output ports?  Right now, I've only figured out how to
>> run it with either ALSA or FreeBob backends.  While both work great
>> separately, I'd like to have both sets of ports (FA-101 i/o and ALSA
>> capture/playback) appear together in the connections widget.  Or more
>> likely, I'm missing something more fundamental in my understanding!  Many
>> thanks.
> 
> Please search the archives for "syncing two soundcards". What was written in 
> the past for syncing two pci cards also applies for syncing a pci card and a 
> firewire device.
> And I don't feel like answering the very same question yet again...
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Arnold
> 
> PS: The basic answer to your question is: It's not possible unless your 
> hardware provides external syncing and you do some software hacking...

the alsa_in and alsa_out tools that come with netjack allow this without 
external sync.

Greets,

Pieter



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