[LAU] jack + other audio

Peter O'Doherty mail at peterodoherty.net
Wed Feb 26 09:44:49 UTC 2014


Thanks.

I've installed pulseaudio-module-jack but "Pulseaudio JACK Sink" is not 
showing up in the connections in qjackctl or in volume control. What am 
I missing?

In case it's relevant I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and qjackctl 0.3.8.


On 02/26/2014 09:56 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Wed, February 26, 2014 7:21 pm, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm know this has been asked a thousand times already but could someone
>> please point me in the direction of instructions to enable non-jack
>> applications (like vlc) to work concurrently with jack? The well-known
>> situation is that jack "hogs" audio and makes other applications
>> unusable. How to get around this?
>>
>
> There are three options:
>
> 1: use pulse audio with jack-sink - easy
>
> 2: use the jack-alsa plugin for alsa - not so easy
>
> 3: get a second audio device just for normal playback - $$$ (also pretty
> easy)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-audio-user mailing list
> Linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>


-- 
//=============================
-> Peter O'Doherty
-> http://www.peterodoherty.net
-> mail at peterodoherty.net
//=============================



More information about the Linux-audio-user mailing list