[LAU] [ANN] tschack-0.120.1 and PyJackd-0.1.0

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from torbenh's message of 2010-12-30 16:30:33 +0100:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:58:16AM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Excerpts from torbenh's message of 2010-12-28 16:57:14 +0100:
> > > 
> > > hi...
> > > 
> > > since jack1 release is taking pretty long, i decided to stop waiting
> > > with a tschack release.
> > > 
> > > tschack is an SMP aware fork of jack1.
> > > its a dropin replacement like jack2.
> > > 
> > > features:
> > > - jack1 mlocking
> > > - controlapi which works even when libjackserver.so is loaded RTLD_LOCAL
> > > - smp aware
> > > - backendswitching
> > > - strictly synchronous like jack1. (-> no latency penalty)
> > > - clickless connections. 
> > > - shuts down audio processing when cpu is overloaded for too long.
> > > 
> > > i also released PyJackd which is a wrapper around libjackserver.
> > > 
> > > features:
> > > - commandline for backendswitching
> > > - pulseaudio dbus reservation.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > get it here:
> > > http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/files/tschack-0.120.1.tar.gz
> > > http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/files/PyJackd-0.1.0.tar.gz
> > 
> > Not sure what half of that means :)
> > One thing I think you forgot to mention but might be of interest is
> > jack-session support
> 
> right. jack-session is supported. but thats what jack1 and jack2 also
> support nowadays.
> 
> well.... which of the features is unclear ?

Oh, I thought there is no jack1 release with jack-session yet, dunno
about jack2.

> > > features:
> > > - jack1 mlocking

Means for a user?

> > > - controlapi which works even when libjackserver.so is loaded RTLD_LOCAL

Means for a user?

> > > - smp aware
> > > - backendswitching

Means for a user?

> > > - strictly synchronous like jack1. (-> no latency penalty)

Async (jack2?) has a latency penalty?

> > > - clickless connections. 
> > > - shuts down audio processing when cpu is overloaded for too long.

I guess most users don't know very much about the technical details of
the jack implementations.