[LAU] Xfce, jack, and GStreamer

[Don Strayer]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:52:36 -0400
Mac <ussndmac at charter.net> wrote:

> The way I understand it, gstreamer by default looks for the jack sink
> by name i.e. System-> Capture1 etc. And the connects to it every time
> it requires to output sound, then disconnects when it's done. So, when
> the source is there, you can, in jack connections, re-direct it to
> whatever. But, when gstreamer is done playing sound it disappears,
> with it's connections.

Guess I need to dig deeper into the docs. Any pointers are welcome.

> (a side note, I replaced the jack/alsa with zita/alsa connection, both
> work, zita is better sound quality)

Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about zita-ajbridge.