On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Ross Gammon wrote:
On 02/24/2016 08:52 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
The qjackctl that currently ships with 1604 is broken. In fact it can
impact other applications including the desktop. Qjackctl is a large
part of our audio workflow and also affects some of our Video
applications that rely on jackd for sync purposes. The latest qjackctl
builds itself as a qt5 application by default. Ubuntu is set up as a qt5
system by default too. However, qjackctl will build just fine as a QT4
application and as we already have other QT4 applications all the
required Libs are already there. When built as a qt4 application
qjackctl seems to work just fine. When looking through the web, it seems
qjackctl is not the only application having the same problem with qt5.
So the problem is with QT5.
Have built it successfully with QT4 and as Len says - it seems to work.
The look it quite different though. I have uploaded it to
ppa:ubuntustudio-dev/dev-testing if you want to give it a spin.
I will test it from the ppa, though I am quite confident it will work fine
as I have already tested my own qt4 build.
I tried to see if there was some other patch we could apply from the QT
bug tracker or something. But there is so much misinformation about
different systrays, notification areas, I could not find anything concrete.
That was my findings too.
Ga! ubuntu changes the default from debian's 48k to 44.1k, Why not leave
it alone? Even intel's internal HDA is designed around 48k. (all analog
circuitry makes 48k sound cleaner)
I can't see any rationale for that 44.1 setting in the changelog, but
unfortunately, after the Freeze starts we can only really fix bugs.
There is someone in the Ubuntu dev team who has found an audio interface
that only does 44.1k I think. I have found more devices that only do
48k... The history is convoluted, but mircosoft/Intel PC hardware has used
48k as default since AC97 at least. And tends to rate convert everything to
48k. Skype's codec is also 48k based as is the html standard Opus. As
such, the analog part of the builtin audio hw is built using filters etc.
that make 48k sound the best and let 44.1 fall where it may. CDs are still
around, but music distribution has moved to Download based and streaming
so there is no longer really any reason to use 44.1k.
However, having said that. It is not worth arguing the point. I suspect if
we asked for the default to be changed we would be told "no". That is what
I was told in pulseaudio btw. There are some laptops who's mic are 48k
only, but the HDA chipset allows the OS to set other speeds and so the
input has pops and crackles untill pulse is set to 48k default.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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