[LAU] Jack-enabled CLI Player

[Patrick Shirkey]

>
> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 02:19:33 you wrote:
>    
>>> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:45 +0300, David Baron wrote:
>>>        
>>>> What might be a jack-enabled equivalent of:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/ogg123 -d alsa<1>    (<1>   is and ogg file, obviously)
>>>>
>>>> Preferrable would be something that will play through jack if the daemon
>>>> be running, alsa not (mplayer can work this way but this is a bit heavy
>>>> for a short file play, i.e., a signal from a program).
>>>>          
>>> mplayer fits the bill perfectly imho and I'm not convinced that it's
>>> that heavy - it actually uses very little memory when just playing a
>>> sound file (mp3, ogg, wave).
>>>        
>> Does mplayer auto sense if jack is being used and fall back to
>> pulse/gstreamer/esd/alsa/oss if not? Maybe David just needs a small
>> script that willl check the existance of a running jack and trigger the
>> correct commandline.
>>      
> Done in mplayer with option -ao jack,alsa (pulse can be in this list as well)!
>    



That's very handy to know.


>> Does anyone have an example of a bash command to check if jack is running?
>>
>> ex. (untested)
>>
>> !# /bin/bash
>>
>> if(jack_connect 2>&1 | grep "server not running")
>>
>>       alsaplayer -i text file.ogg
>>
>> else
>>
>>       alsaplayer -i text -o jack file.ogg
>>
>>      
>>> If you want a program to have "signal sounds" an external sound player
>>> is bulky regardless of the player used. Jack itself also sounds a bit
>>> overkill. This sounds like the use-case for system sounds, esd, pulse,
>>> etc.
>>>        
>> I agree. Do you want this feature to work so that you can hear the phone
>> calls when jack is running or do you have a more specific need for
>> piping the audio through jack?
>>      
> I am using the computer, possibly for listening or audio using jack or not.
> The applet needs to work regardless.
>    


I have a hunch that this will become a very common scenario so I might 
whip up a quick toot for this problem as an example for future 
reference... Would you be interested in added a section on your experience?

Just a few lines or a paragraph about what you needed to do and the 
solution would be very useful.


>> IIUC the latest version of pulse will use jack if it is running and
>> reconfigure itself to use alsa directly when it is not running. This is
>> the point of the dbus code.
>>
>> However I'm not 100% certain that Kjetils suggested method is the
>> correct way to achieve this. I was under the impression that the latest
>> version didn't need to be configured at all. The dbus code in jack2
>> would take care of the call to reconfigure the i/o sinks. I think
>> Kjetils suggestion means that jack has to be always on before pa is
>> started.
>>      
> It would seem that configuration needs jack running to pulse will fail to
> start.
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