[LAU] Jack users - how many channels do you want with PA module-jackdbus-detect?

Bearcat M. Şándor hometheater at feline-soul.com
Wed Feb 27 01:22:42 UTC 2013


I like that idea too Len, very much. Thanks for the in-depth answer too.


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

>
> On Tue, February 26, 2013 10:50 am, Bearcat M. Şándor wrote:
> > I assume that the channels can be anything we want and don't have to be
> > based on ITU standards? I'm planning on playing with ambisonics sometime
> > soon.
>
> Jack remains as is with whatever number of channels your audio interface
> has. Pulse by default now will create the same number of channels as well.
> For a 10 channel card this is over doing things. Most uses of bridging
> pulse to jack only require 2 channels (or even 1 for phone work). Jack
> just calls channels 1, 2 ... to whatever. Pulse names them for surround up
> to 7.1 and then calls any extra aux1 etc. I do not know if pulse also
> plays with the sound to add surround stuff or not. I have had one user
> tell me it does... but I don't know.
>
> Personally, I would like to see the jack source/sink treated as a device.
> If the jack detect module is loaded then a device appears for it weather
> jack is running or not. It should allow jack to be set up in the same way
> as a card, stereo, 5.1, 7.1. Input or output only etc. Then if jack does
> show up that many lines are created. It really doesn't matter if the
> device jack is talking to has more or even less channels than pulse sets
> up.
>
> --
> Len Ovens
> www.OvenWerks.net
>
>
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