19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
9:56 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017 09:48 CEST, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au>
schrieb:
People,
I didn't get a response to this - can anyone help?
See below.
On 2017-09-05 14:12, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> For playing from multiple sources, ALSA plus the version of .asoundrc
> below has been rock-solid for a couple of years now:
>
> I now want to use things like "recordmydesktop" which work fine with
> the mic but they do not record sound from audio or video clips that
> are playing eg from YouTube or local mpv etc. So, yet again, I
> started to try and make sense of JACK because I was pretty sure that
> it could solve this problem - but I have found sound on linux has
> always been a major pain and messing around with configs and rebooting
Sorry, but if you think you need to reboot after configuration changes then you might
need to read up a bit on how things work.
> etc on my big workstation is tedious so I think I
will try to get
> something working on my laptop to begin with.
>
> Hopefully some jack gurus will have some suggestions about how to do
> what I want to do? I presume it is possible?
Given your goal, I'd strongly suggest you install cadence (requires jackd2 because
of d-bus) and enable the alsa->jack bridge. You might even want to enable the
pulseaudio->jack bridge. That's three clicks to a working audio setup.
HTH, Ralf Mattes