[LAU] Jack and Virtual Loopback device as permanent Alsa-to-Jack bridge

Peter Nelson peter at fuzzle.org
Tue May 4 12:38:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 06:01 -0700, James Warden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wrote a WIKI page on how to bridge ALSA apps that do not "talk jack" at all (like skype) or poorly (like lmms) by using the ALSA virtual loopback sound card. There are a few reasons why I chose to use this trick, which I explain along the WIKI page. Just read it if you are bored and send back comments if you like :)
> 
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_bridge
> 
> Cheers!
> J.

Sadly this is not infallible either. After a while I sometimes end up
with just static and need to restart either the ALSA user or alsa_in...

-- 
Peter



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