Re: [LAD] First release of zita-njbridge

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Reuben Martin wrote: There are a number of differences. I can't tell for sure as I have a newer computer since I was playing with netjack ;) but njbridge seems to use less CPU, It is easy to set up, seems to affect jack less (on both ends) because it is a client and not internal like the -net backend for jack. njbridge can work with any jack on any end: it does not matter which one is master, but there could be three computers with jackdbus, jackd2 and jackd1 all bridged. There is no limitation of audio interface on only one (master) server. There is no requirement for all servers to be phyically synced. With netjack, both ends not only had to be the same jack (jack1 or 2) they also had to be the same version. (I had more differences in my mind but lost them while typing) The link can be lost without killing one end's jack server... or even the connections within jack. Multi-casting is possible, one server can send 5 outputs that one server can collect channel 1and2 while the next has 3and4 while another takes 5 only... and maybe another grabs 12and5 and another grabs 34and5. (think two stereo mixes and a tally line) none of them needs to process the channels they don't use. Think of a radio station with three studios (CBC in Frobisher Bay in 1979 or so but analog everything) each studio has its own audio interface and computer with a jackserver. In many ways they are separate and work on there own, one of them being the on air control and the others for making commercials or prerecording shows. But sometimes it is also needed to send audio from one studio to the next. Jack does not have to be stopped, just njbridge started... and ports connected... the on air control may have njbridge running all the time... maybe even two of them that the other studios just connect to when needed. This does not make netjack outmoded, netjack has it's own uses where two fully synced machines are used. This just opens up a lot of new uses or works better for some uses than netjack could. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net