2008/3/27, Andreas Hermann Braml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jack is one of those red blankets. All major distros are on their move > to pulseaudio right now. As I understand it, the functionality is > similar to what jack provides (correct me if I'm wrong). So although in > this case, there is a really handy app - Ardour - that uses jack, I > don't think this should bring in jack automatically for Lumiera sound > backend, too. Well, it could, as long as there is a pulseaudio backend, > too ;)
While jack and pulse appear to try to solve the same problem, they actually do have different features. Pulse is designed for: Audio "consumption", and "light" desktop usage: Its for audio-players, for little plings and plongs, for making sure that your skype headset works, that you can listen to NIN while playing Doom, etc... Jack on the other hand is for Audio "Production", it is designed to be able to record all the fancy sounds that your software synth does in ardour, it is designed to dump all the streams from your 8-channel soundcard to disk, it is there to put every sound from your gigabytes of sound samples onto your speaker at the instant you press a key on your midi-keyboard. etc... For simple Video Editing and some lightweight audio stuff, both pulse and "jack" will work, and both "should" work, but keep in mind that some people will prefer jack for its advanced features, and some will prefer Pulse, because they want things to "just work", with a minimal amount of fuzz. Cheers -Richard -- Don't contribute to the Y10K problem! _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
