Re: Audio apps (was Re: Proposed Modules, My Take)

[Rob Taylor <robtaylor fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 18:25 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
wrote:
> Andy Wingo, who made the jack plugins, recently started at Fluendo and
> he plans on getting the current Jack plugins into shape. The current
> Jack plugins are due to the nature of Jack not interchangeable with
> esound, polypaudio or artsdsink plugins (since as Rob points out you
> need to write your apps in a very specific way to not loose the value of
> using jack, which is why the jack plugins works different than any other
> 'soundserver' plugins).
> 
> Wingo said he will write a second jacksink plugin though which will
> basically let you use jack as a normal soundserver through GStreamer
> (this plugin can not be used by pro-audio apps though, they would still
> have to relay on the 'real' jack GStreamer plugins).

hmm, when i read the gstreamer spec, it seemed to me a plugin format
suitable for use with jack :/ can someone explain to me why not?

Rob