Hi Terry, I see you're running with Ubuntu. Unless you have a specific need for Pulseaudio (there's some app you're using on a regular basis that needs to do audio through Pulse) then my suggestion is to disable it. Unfortunately with Ubuntu there's no way to easily remove Pulse (I've tried many times - it is possible but not easy). But it can be fairly easily turned off. Then you'll have straight ALSA, unless you use Jack - in which case you'll have Jack talking to ALSA.
To turn Pulseaudio off, there are instructions in the Wiki at http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Ubuntu_-_No_sound/sound_card_in_Rivendell_after_setup See those instructions, they generally work fairly well. As has been mentioned already on this list, if you're setting up a straight broadcast machine that isn't doing anything else, your best bet is straight ALSA, you'll get the least amount of latency and fewer things to troubleshoot if something doesn't work properly. On the other hand if you want to run other audio applications then you'll likely need Jack. > > This is a follow-up question from yesterday (Thanks Wayne for all of your > help!) > > When you get a chance could anyone please assist me in understanding JACK, > Pulse Audio and ALSA? As of right now, we have audio coming through the > board with JACK and Pulse Audio working together. The problem is I think we > might have some confusion with our sound card (Delat44 - ICE1712) and those > 2 programs. When we boot the system the JACK icon shows "green" but after > about 10 minutes it will be inside a red box. Audio still works but it's > driving me nuts why. Is there another option here? Should we just run > Pulse Audio and ALSA? We're running RD 2.02 with Ubuntu 11.04. > > Thanks in advance! > > -Terry _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
