Thanks a bunch.  Our system here is straight-up broadcasting so from the
sounds of it, stick with ALSA and ditch Jack?  So the question I would have
then is, how do you get rid of Jack? And once JACK is gone, how does ALSA
get priority?

-Terry

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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