<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> katja <katjavetter@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "pd-dev@iem.at" <pd-dev@iem.at> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:21 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD-dev] jack dbus?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>>I checked it on Xubuntu: running Pulseaudio as an audio
submixer<br>>through JACK . In Pulseaudio's mixer GUI (which is the default mixer<br>>in Xubuntu's panel), JACK can be selected as destination for an<br>>application's audio output, but only when the application is indeed<br>>delivering audio. For example, when a video is playing in Firefox, the<br>>audio interface option boxes appear.<br><br>So when you pause the video does the option box go away?<br><br>>Setting up the connections manually is time-consuming. But, since JACK<br>>adds some latency to Pd, I would not use it as default (autostart)<br>>setup. The lowest practical roundtrip latency through Pd I could get<br>>in the JACK-with-Pulseaudio setup was measured 50 ms, 32 ms more than<br>>directly through ALSA.<br><br>Hm...<br>http://jackaudio.org/no_extra_latency<br><br>I'm talking about running PulseAudio on top of JACK and not the other<br>way around. Is that what you're doing?<br><br>>Is there not another
way to play sound files or tutorial video's<br>>together with Pd? I found one nice alternative: make VLC JACK-aware<br>>and use it to play media files and network streams through JACK. To<br>>prepare the setup:<br><br>>- install vlc package (multimedia player and streamer) if it's not<br>>already installed<br>>- install vlc-plugin-jack package<br>>- in VLC preferences, set audio output to JACK<br><br>>A Youtube video can be played in VLC via menu Media >> Open Network<br>>Stream. It should be possible for other streams as well but I still<br>>have to find out how to do Vimeo or Soundcloud. The VLC/JACK route<br>>would not be most convenient to watch internet video clips on a<br>>regular basis. However for incidental use, the advantage is that VLC<br>>connection is quickly made in JACK.<br><br>I''ve done that before to port youtube audio into Pd. While it's certainly<br>handy it's a lot of work just to
get a GNU/Linux machine to behave with<br>one other general audio use-case.<br><br>-Jonathan<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>