[LAU] starting pd-extended 0.42.5

Aaron L. elmastero74 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 17:45:07 UTC 2011


Oh yeah.....

No jack messages either.  Nothing about pd, nothing about anything actually
yet Jack still works.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Aaron L. <elmastero74 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.....
>
> Not too sure why this doesn't work.  However I looked in
> /usr/share/applications and "vim'd" pd-extended.desktop and got this:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Pd-extended
> GenericName=Pure Data
> Comment=Visual dataflow programming platform for multimedia
> Comment[ca]=Plataforma de programaci<97> visual per aplicacions
> multim<8f>dia
> Comment[de]=Grafische Datenflussprogrammierung f<9f>r Multimedia
> Comment[es]=Plataforma de programaci<97>n visual para aplicaciones
> multimedia
> Comment[fr]=Plateforme de programmation visuelle pour applications
> multim<8e>dia
> Comment[it]=Piattaforma di programmazione visuale per applicazioni
> multimedia
> Comment[pt]=Plataforma de programa<8d><8b>o visuais para multimedia
> Exec=pasuspender -- /usr/bin/pdextended -alsa %F
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Icon=pd
> TryExec=pdextended
> Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Development
> MimeType=text/x-puredata;application/x-maxmsp;text/x-maxmsp;
> StartupNotify=false
> ~
>
> .....Notice the bit in yellow?  I'm wondering if that's colliding with
> Jack's settings somehow.
>
> (I tried commenting that part out and starting pd and it wouldn't even
> start).
>
> If I start pd via the terminal, say, like this:  pdextended -jack channels
> 2 /home/aaron/Desktop/AaronsFiddleSplit.pd
>
> .....I still have to select "JacK' in my media settings (within PD) so it's
> not selected by default which one would think would be the case as that's
> the flag I sent it, correct?
>
> Either way, my  audio settings don't seem to work in pd.
>
> Here's the messages I get before selecting Jack:
>
> error: channels: can't open
> error: 2: can't open
> fiddle version 1.1 TEST4
>
> Then I'll click on DIO Errors and get this:
>
> seconds ago    error type
>      2.35    unknown
>      2.35    unknown
> audio I/O error history:
> seconds ago    error type
>      3.10    unknown
>      3.10    unknown
> audio I/O error history:
> seconds ago    error type
>      3.57    unknown
>      3.57    unknown
>
> Then I'll select Jack in the media settings of pd and click DIO and get
> this:
>
> audio I/O error history:
> seconds ago    error type
>      1.30    unknown
>      2.32    unknown
>    109.83    unknown
>    109.83    unknown
>
> Oddly enough, within Jack, all of my connections are gone.  So basically it
> looks like there are no readable or writable clients to connect to.
>
> Even odder though is the fact that Jack is still running alright as I can
> watch a youtube video and audio still works.
>
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> AFAIK, no compilation flags are needed to enable jack support for pd-ext.
>> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdExtended
>>
>> After starting qjack, Have you already tried launching pd from terminal
>> with
>> pdextended -jack channels 2 <your patch name>
>> ?
>>
>> I don't know kxstudio, but IMHO it's unlikely that Pd would kick out jack.
>>
>> Here Ubuntu Lynx AudioPro customized, pd-ext 0.42.5.
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>>>  I use kxstudio which allows all audio to be routed to jack by default.
>>>
>>> However, when starting pd-extended 0.42.5 jack is killed and this makes
>>> life
>>> rough.
>>>
>>> Do I need to recompile pd manually in order to make it play nice?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any input.
>>>
>>> -Aaron
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