On 31.01.2018 21:22, Thomas Brand wrote:
  On Wed, January 31, 2018 15:55, Christian Affolter
wrote:
  On 31.01.2018 15:20, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
  Maybe jack will work if you give it the same
parameters that arecord
 uses. I.e. compare the content of
  /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params (or a similarly
 named file) when running arecord and when running jack.
 Also, maybe it works to record in jack if you change audio from
 "duplex"
 to "capture only". 
 BINGO and thank you so much for this pointer! 
 # hw_params during jackd -d alsa -d hw:0
 # jackd -d alsa
 cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub0/hw_params
 access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
 format: S32_LE
 subformat: STD
 channels: 8
 rate: 48000 (48000/1)
 period_size: 1024
 buffer_size: 2048
 
 What i wonder is did you see 8 JACK system:capture ports with the above
 configuration?  
yes, there are 8 ports available:
jack_lsp -c -t
system:capture_1
        32 bit float mono audio
[...]
system:capture_8
        32 bit float mono audio
system:playback_1
        32 bit float mono audio
[...]
system:playback_8
        32 bit float mono audio
  It's still confusing that JACK would attach the
device
 differently. The factor 4 can probably be explained by 8 / 2 channels (?)
 or has it do with duplex?.
 It could be that the record just took every 4th sample. But why? 
I guess it has something to do with the fact, that I only have the first
Livewire+ Destination on the Axia-ALSA driver configured (which equals
to the first two system capture ports in jackd) to actually receive RTP
streams from the Livewire+ network. The other 3 stereo Livewire
Destinations (6 system capture channels) are not configured. However,
this is just a speculation and I would have to verify that, by
configuring more than one Livewire destinations.
But anyway, it's a pretty unexpected recording behaviour. Either the
driver shouldn't block (or whatever it's doing) or jackd would need a
way to detect that only two of the ports are actually working, which is
most likely outside of jackd's responsibility.
  For future reference, this could be issued on github
with these detailed
 debug informations. It's possible that JACK can't do anything about it if
 it's driver related. So.. up to you. 
I can do this, if anyone thinks that this issue might be of any help
and/or someone is willing to spend more time to actually debug this
within the jackd source code. On the other hand, it's kind of documented
on the mailing list archive by now for others to find.
 > # hw_params during jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 -C -i 2
> cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub0/hw_params
>
> access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
> format: S32_LE
> subformat: STD
> channels: 2
> rate: 48000 (48000/1)
> period_size: 1024
> buffer_size: 2048 
Thanks again for your help
Chris