[LAU] jack in -> alsa out

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Sun Mar 14 09:20:36 EDT 2010



On 03/15/2010 12:16 AM, Jeremy wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of an app that will provide a jack input source and
>> send the stream to a different alsa hw output to the device that jack is
>> connected to?
>>
>> What I would like to do is use my notebooks onboard stereo audio device
>> as a headphone monitor output and my 4 port usb device as the jack i/o
>> device.
>>
>> I don't really want to combine the 2 devices into a single alsa device.
>>
>> If no one has already written something for this purpose, apart from the
>> obvious issue of samples potentially getting out of sync is there any
>> other reason this combination may not work?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>      
> Hello Patrick,
>
> A normal Jack1 install comes with the utilities alsa_in and alsa_out.
> Unless you're using Ubuntu. With Jack2 it's even easier as I've
> understood. But I don't use Jack2 so out of my head I don't know the answer.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeremy
>    


Thanks,


I had forgotten about those tools.



Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd




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