31 Aug
2008
31 Aug
'08
3:37 p.m.
Jeremy Henty <onepoint(a)starurchin.org> writes:
it looks to me as though PulseAudio is essentially a
replacement for
jack
Wrong; it complements jack very well. There was some talk about
merging jack into pulseaudio, though.
it looks as though it can also sit on top of JACK:
Yes, that's the normal use case if you're a pro audio user and want
normal audio apps to work.
I'd like to know what PulseAudio offers that jack
doesn't. Is it the
networking?
Jack is low level, ie only single mono channels; it deals with
synchronization and interconnection among applications. Pulse is
higher level; it deals with streams, like 5.1 audio and is only
intended to communicate with the server, ie no interconnection. Both
do network.
They complement each other perfectly;).
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