[PD] audio drops for few ms, or one sec, with jack on ubuntu (was: Mess with Pd installation on Linux)

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

Just an addition to this, it shouldn't be pd's problem as I tried jack with
audacity and got drop outs there as well. I'd be grateful to any help..


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Forgot to mention that whenever I move a window around, open a subpatch,
> swich between applications while the audio is running, the sound stops till
> I stop which ever action.
> Also I'm running $ jackd -d firewire -d hw:NVidia (forgot to write hw: in
> the first email)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Coming back to a previous thread I started, having compiled pd with jack,
>> having done the realtime scheduling in jack, opening pd with '-jack' and
>> '-rt' I still get some audio drop outs. The sound actually stops for a few
>> ms, or even about a second, then comes back.
>> From the previous thread I was told that probably jack is waiting for
>> samples that pd doesn't provide at certain moments. I went through jack's
>> manual, but it is a manual for programmers and I'm not one, so I didn't
>> make much of it.
>> The only thing I found in jack's FAQ is a question about audio with jack
>> on a macbook (I'm on a macbook with ubuntu) that mentions a drivers problem
>> that distorts the output http://jackaudio.org/macbook_distortion
>> but my output is not distorted...
>> I also tried to start up jack like this $ jackd -d firewire -d NVidia
>> but it really didn't make any difference (why should it? it uses the same
>> sound card with or without  '-d NVidia'). Also used QjackCtl to change the
>> block size, but also didn't work.
>> Dunno if this message in jack's terminal says something about the
>> situation:
>> JackEngine::XRun: client = pure_data_0 was not run: state = 2
>> JackAudioDriver::ProcessGraphAsyncMaster: Process error
>>
>> It appears whenever I open pd with '-jack'
>> I'm on a macbook 5,2 with ubuntu 12.04 and pd-0.45-4
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>
>
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