[64studio-devel] [64 Studio] #336: sound and vision menu items not functioning if jack stopped

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi,

|--==> 64 Studio writes:

  6S> #336: sound and vision menu items not functioning if jack stopped
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  6S>  Reporter:  parkland99 at hotmail.com  |        Owner:  free 
  6S>      Type:  enhancement             |       Status:  new  
  6S>  Priority:  normal                  |    Milestone:  2.0  
  6S> Component:  packages                |      Version:  1.4.0
  6S>  Severity:  normal                  |   Resolution:       
  6S>  Keywords:                          |  
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  6S> Comment (by daniel at 64studio.com):

  6S>  The problem with running Jack all the time is that apps like Ekiga and
  6S>  Totem do not support it, so you'd have the same problem in reverse. I do
  6S>  think a launch script that gives the user a warning dialogue box is a good
  6S>  idea, as most of these apps will only warn about Jack not being there when
  6S>  run on the command line.

Totem actually can now plays through jackd via the jack gstreamer
back-end, and according to my tests it doesn't perform that bad. You
may want to give it a try:

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

(yes "-bad" doesn't sound good, but that is still better than the
"-really-bad" package, which also exists :)

About Ekiga, which system is it actually using for playback? Maybe we
could find some workaround for it as well, and have jack supported by
all the applications which come with 64 Studio, and so let jack
running by the default, it could be a strong point of 64 Studio wrt
other audio distros.

Ciao!

Free