19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
4:41 p.m.
I've long wanted to add samplerate conversion to
jack, but
haven't made my mind on how it should be implemented.
AFAIK JACK isn't intended to do samplerate conversion on the
fly. To do this, you need something on top of JACK (maybe a
soundserver) or between JACK and the actual hardware (maybe
DMIX).
I would like to see all,
mplayer/arts/esd/gstreamer/helix/etc.. to use jack as an
audio interface. Currently the situation is too complex and
implementing alsa/oss/whatever interface to every
application is also too complex.
We're currently discussing this in the other thread ;-) .
There are too many
variations on how these things are handled. For example not
all clients allow me to use /dev/dsp9 as audio device as I
would like. Then there are still conflicts on number of
applications using the same audio devices.. And then all
the sampleformat, etc. issues.
There are even applications which don't tell you in any way
which subsystem these use so you have to guess about it :( .
Jack would fix most of these in lowlatency way
suitable for
number of different applications from gaming to music
producing.
I think so too but there are people who have other opinions.
Best regards
ce