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 > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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