19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
10:50 a.m.
Ralf,
On 2017-09-19 17:56, Ralf Mattes wrote:
Thanks - I will check that out.
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017 09:48 CEST, Philip
Rhoades
<phil(a)pricom.com.au> schrieb:
I have been using Linux since the 0.9 kernels and have hardly used
Windows since NT but I think that in comparison, it is not unreasonable
to describe sound on Linux as having "always been a major pain" and
rebooting sometimes being necessary to get things working again . . even
Windows 95 was relatively painless in this regard . .
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.
See Subject: - no PA . .
Regards,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au