[LAU] Output all audio on other computer's device?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 09:36:42 UTC 2012


>> >> jackd also includes an alsa to jack bridge, as does the aforementioned
>> >> zita-ajbridge. both are easy to use, the latter is very low latency
>> >
>> >
>> > "bridge" is sort of the wrong word. both these tools make ALSA-supported
>> > audio interfaces available to JACK clients, in addition to whatever
>> > backend
>> > the JACK server is using. they do not "bridge" between an application
>> > that
>> > uses ALSA and JACK.
>> >
>> > sort of.
>>
>> Just so I understand, the practical result of this is that I can use
>> an audio application which lacks jack support (perhaps iTunes?) and
>> send its audio output to jackd?
>
>
> on OS X, any application that uses CoreAudio for audio I/O (which basically
> means every application except JACK native ones) can use JACK as its input
> and/or output device. configuring this is generally trivial.
>
> on Windows, any application that uses ASIO for audio I/O (which basically
> means most pro-audio/music creation applications) can use JACK as its input
> and/or output device. configuring this is generally easy.
>
> on Linux, any application that uses GStreamer (or a layer above it), ffmeg,
> the regular ALSA PCM API or PulseAudio's audio API can use JACK as its
> input/output device. configuring this can range from easy to quite tricky.

Thank you Paul.

- Grant


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