#rivendell on freenode

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Nathan Steele <nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com
> wrote:

>   What's the irc chanel? I know what irc is, just the name of the channel.
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>
> On June 21, 2014 7:14:32 AM drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> go simple first.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Thomas Churchill <
>> tho...@virtualvoice.info> wrote:
>>
>>> OK I lied, it's not THAT simple. Miscommunication here. Using ALSA was
>>> the
>>> only way I have been able to have Rivendell play audio. Direct through
>>> ALSA
>>> and without JACK. OF COURSE I have removed ALSA, with the menu, and
>>> checked
>>> again in the configuration files directly. I said so. Everything is set
>>> with
>>> the JACK server running, the audio hardware is no longer tied to RD
>>> directly, but it can't find any audio from RD. I have had to fiddle with
>>> permissions/ownership because for some reason out of the box jack, jack
>>> daemons, and RD do not start as the same user and so can't see each
>>> other.
>>> That's all fixed. No errors anywhere. Stop RD Daemons, start jack, start
>>> RD,
>>> start stream, everything appears in the JACKCTRL panel connection menu.
>>> Admin says it's using JACK. CAED shows no errors, Jack server running,
>>> stream connects, but the best I can get is 128K static, nothing from the
>>> speakers, and RDAirplay shows no meters, and won't load carts no matter
>>> how
>>> I connect the virtual cables so far, and I've spent literally 30+ hours
>>> at
>>> it in two days. Its either still a owner issue or the virtual cables not
>>> connected properly. There are serious version, ownership, permissions
>>> issues
>>> here. I set up an icecast, and shoutcast server on my linux box in
>>> Chicago
>>> remotely, booted over to Windows, had a stream connecting and playing
>>> music
>>> from a Windows setup in 20 minutes just to eliminate any possible issues
>>> in
>>> the stream encoder I wrote with third party hosts. Yet, I've spent three
>>> days trying to get a test tone because JACK and RD won't talk to each
>>> other.
>>>
>>
>> Test jack without Rivendell.
>>
>> Try something like VLC as a jack player. (Not great but have a go.) Do
>> everything you are doing now to get Riv and Jack to play together. Then
>> shut down the Riv side only. Fire up VLC, set it to jack audio output and
>> possibly shut it down and start it up again. Play a simple wav, ogg, or mp3
>> file. Can you get any sound out via jack now?
>>
>> Another thing I do is to use a jack audio meter and hook that to my sound
>> out instead of my "speakers" and see if the meter is seeing any audio
>> passing.
>>
>>
>>> It can't be this complicated can it?
>>>
>>> It is likely something simple. But sometimes, the simple things can bite
>>> us the worst.
>>>
>>
>> Plus, are you in the IRC channel? Have you asked for help there?
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> drew
>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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