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

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

It is usable with Jack, that is why the first plugins where made (and
will be maintained from here on).

But since it seems a lot of people want to use Jack as a
esound,polypd,artsd,nas,yourpoision replacement then it makes sense to
have a jackd plugin which its suitable for that use.

Christian

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:54 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> 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
>