[LAU] jackd and jamin: xine disconnects at every song

[Rui Nuno Capela]

lanas wrote:
> Le Jeudi, 27 Août 2009 10:23:29 +0200,
> <hollunder at gmx.at> a écrit :
> 
>> One possible solution for you would be qjackctls patchbay where you
>> could set up a persistent connection from xine to jamin. I haven't
>> tried it but it could work good enough.
> 
> Thanks, this works good, as it establishes automatically the xine ->
> jamin connection at every song.  That works.  On the other hand,
> xine always conencts to the system sound at every song so there are two
> conenctions.  The automatic one configured with qjackctl's patchbay,
> and xine's own.  So at the start of each song I have to disconnect the
> conenction xine made to leave the one configured by the patchbay alone.
> 
> Is there a way with qjackctl to prevent a connection to be made ?  If
> it does, the user interface is not that intuitive about it.
> 

while in qjackctl patchbay, try the "exclusive" flag at the xine side.

as designed, any other connections will get shutdown and only the ones
defined (in your case xine->jamin) will be kept, again and again. thus
the said "exclusive" semantics

seeya
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