Richard Spindler wrote: > > While jack and pulse appear to try to solve the same problem, they > actually do have different features. > > Pulse is designed for: Audio "consumption", and "light" desktop usage: > Its for audio-players, for little plings and plongs, for making sure > that your skype headset works, that you can listen to NIN while > playing Doom, etc... > > Jack on the other hand is for Audio "Production", it is designed to be > able to record all the fancy sounds that your software synth does in > ardour, it is designed to dump all the streams from your 8-channel > soundcard to disk, it is there to put every sound from your gigabytes > of sound samples onto your speaker at the instant you press a key on > your midi-keyboard. etc... > > For simple Video Editing and some lightweight audio stuff, both pulse > and "jack" will work, and both "should" work, but keep in mind that > some people will prefer jack for its advanced features, and some will > prefer Pulse, because they want things to "just work", with a minimal > amount of fuzz.
I stand corrected, then (thanks @Thorsten, too!). When doing serious audio on POSIX in a portable way, Jack is the way to go, right? Andreas -- My 5 today: #172820 (wine), #203724 (wine), #129405 (wine), #184940 (wine), #191132 (wine) Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day
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