[LAU] simple commandline player for jack

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:08:56AM -1000, david wrote:
> Bj?rn Lindig wrote:
> > Am Freitag 12 M?rz 2010 14:17:52 schrieben Sie:
> >> You won't learn anything about writing a jack client this way, but you
> >> could add this to your bashrc:
> >>
> >> alias mj="mplayer -ao jack"
> > 
> > Simple, but good. Thanks for that!
> 
> You can also tell mplayer to use JACK in mplayer's ~/.mplayer/config 
> file. That's what I did.
> 

This is how I roll:

if killall -0 jackd; then 
   mplayer -af channels=2 -ao jack "$@"
else 
   mplayer -ao alsa:noblock:device=hw=0.0  "$@"
fi 


-ken