On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:57 -0500, patrick wrote: > hi transcoders, > > i am using linux for 5 years and i really don't like oss or alsa. alsa > have a complicated .asoundrc for telling what is what. jack audio > connection kit is the way to go, combined with qjackctl you can make > complex patching without learning asoundrc (mix or whatever). > > would it be possible to have jack supported in transcode?
Everything is possible, given enough time (or money, but that doesn't apply for transcode so far) :) Speaking for myself, I do not have serious objections to put jack in, but neither I have serious motivations to do it quickly. I find the status of high-level audio servers confusing at best. Jack looks like a bit out of scope for transcode, pulseaudio is emerging... The most important showstopper is that I do not add support for every server out there: we just do not have resources to mantain all of those. So, to summarize, - I don't have any objection to merge, in HEAD, a well-written third party patch; - Writing such patch isn't in my short term plan; - I want to see how PulseAudio grow up; Bests, -- Francesco Romani // Ikitt [ Out of memory. ~ We wish to hold the whole sky, ~ But we never will. ]
