[LAU] Streaming setup with OBS and JACK

[hollundertee at gmx.net]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:11:24 -0500
"Chris Caudle" <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:

> On Thu, July 26, 2018 2:07 am, hollundertee at gmx.net wrote:
>  [...]  
> 
> Most of the complexity comes about because Len setup a script to
> configure everything the way he wants every time he logs in.
> If you just want to try this, then start jackd using the audio
> interface you want, then execute:
> $ pactl load-module module-jack-sink
> $ pactl load-module module-jack-source
> 
> You will now have additional ports that show up in  jackd that you can
> route just like any other:
> $ jack_lsp
> system:capture_1
> system:capture_2
> system:playback_1
> system:playback_2
> PulseAudio JACK Sink:front-left
> PulseAudio JACK Sink:front-right
> PulseAudio JACK Source:front-left
> PulseAudio JACK Source:front-right
> 
> The system:capture and  system:playback ports are my physical audio
> interface, the PulseAudio JACK ports are the pseudo-audio-device
> connections from PulseAudio; I can connect the source to
> system:playback and hear audio from my browser, other applications,
> system sounds, etc., and when I want to work on audio editing and not
> have any other audio played through my interface I just disconnect
> those PulseAudio ports and the rest of the software on the system
> does not detect, e.g. Firefox still sends audio to PulseAudio with no
> complaints, but the audio is  just not routed anywhere.
> 
> 

Thanks for the nice explanation Chris!