I know of other Tizen user that would like to see JACK in Tizen, but nobody has volunteered to contribute and maintain a port of JACK to the Tizen audio subsystem. Any port of JACK would have to complement the existing Tizen audio components and not break working Tizen uses and applications and APIs.
Regards Joel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Shirkey Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 1:31 AM To: Tizen List Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen Audio Stack On Sun, September 1, 2013 9:42 pm, MSvB wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > On Fri., Aug. 30, 2013, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >>Reading through the porting docs and I come across this enlightening >>diagram of the Tizen Audio Stack: >>https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Porting_Guide#Audio >>To me it has a glaring hole when compared to this diagram: >>http://linux-audio.com/images/linux-audio-stack.png > Nice catch. > >>[...] > I hope you get traction on this. While I'm not a typical professional > audio user, the use cases for low latency audio as provided by the > Jack project is attractive. And since Tizen has incorporated many > third party projects it would make sense to include Jack, maybe not in > IVI but mobile seems good. > It would be great to see some effort put into running JACK on the sandy bridge platform before it comes to market. JACK has proven to run very well on previous generations of the Atom. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yR-fZlm_rg a demo of the award winning indamixx transmission OS which was running meego at the time. I'm wondering if some of the hesitation towards acceptance of JACK comes from confusion around JACK1 and JACK2. While they are both API compatible JACK1 is written in pure C and JACK2 is written in C++. JACK1 was started first and JACK2 was built out with funding from the French GRAME institute and runs on several platforms including Linux, Mac, Win, iOS. Work is now being done on JACK3 which will effectively replace JACK1 and JACK2 once it is released. That will be in C++. What we have seen from the Android and the ChromeOS people is instead of working with JACK developers to isolate and fix any specific issues they found for integrating JACK into a mobile stack they have cherry picked certain parts from JACK and left out the really useful stuff like inter app communication, midi, networking, etc... in the process inventing yet another partially useful layer for the Linux Audio stack but not actually addressing the needs of Professional Audio. There is already a Pulse Audio sink for JACK which allows Pulse to connect to JACK. There is also a gstreamer plugin for JACK which allows gstreamer to connect to JACK directly. Pulse can be configured to automatically detect when JACK is running and reconfigure it's outputs to connect to JACK and act as a proxy for apps like browsers or other consumer apps that are written to use pulse audio. JACK can route audio to/from pulse audio and gstreamer apps too. So there is already the ability to magically reconnect the streams when JACK is active. And vice versa when JACK is inactive. In addition JACK provides realtime midi protocol for external controllers and networking for clustering which is very attractive when combined with mobile devices. There is also support for video frame sharing which is a third party fork called jack-video written by salsaman(LiVes) and there is work being done to integrate 3d modelling data handling. JACK is supported by all major and nearly all minor open source multimedia apps. Ardour, Qtraktor, Blender, Renoise, EnegyXT just to name a few. JACK is the defacto standard for Professional Open Source Multimedia Production. There is an opportunity to get the open source multimedia community onboard with Tizen as a development platform. There is already support for c, c++ and html5. By far the majority of open source multimedia apps are built in c and c++. Opening up the platform to professional multimedia will bring the attention of some very clever and motivated people from some of the worlds most advanced musical institutions and universities to build out a large selection of high quality professional multimedia tools and assorted toys. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
