Thank you. That was enlightening to me. At least, i believe so... is it right that signal flow through jack is in some sense similar to data flow in unix pipelines?
sorry for this rather basic question. it would help me understand. cheers georg On Friday 20 June 2008 20:33:06 Dennis Schulmeister wrote: > Hi, > > in my opinion the very purpose of audio-jack is equally both: to provide > access to the sound hardware and to enable inter-application routing. > That's because it has originally been an integral part of Ardour's audio > engine before both were split. > > Within the audio domain jack plays an integrating role. First of all > does it simplify application development because it provides an > efficient and easy to use API. > > Secondly it makes sure that all jackified applications play together > (literally). There's no problem at all to create complex signal flows > between as much applications (and hardware) as the CPU can handle. Also > there's no problem to have the applications synchronized to a common > clock. > > Thinking about it if Linux video is really missing something than it is > wide adoption of video-jack. > > > > Yours sincerely, > Dennis Schulmeister -- dr. kurt georg hooss kurts film / schoepfung & wandel breite strasse 6-8, d-23552 luebeck kurts-film.de _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
