Re: jack with pulseaudio

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> Le 27 mai 09 à 20:10, Patrick Shirkey a écrit :
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been researching the issues with pulse and jack working
>> together seamlessly.
>>
>> I have found some interesting info and am happy to see that jackdbus
>> already has support for notifying pulseaudio to suspend itself and
>> allow jack to access the default sound card or assigned device.
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> This is not "jackdbus" by itself, but the fact that the ALSA JACK
> backend now uses some D-Bus based "reservation" code (defined by
> PulseAudio developers). When the ALSA JACK backend starts, it ask for
> the card and PA has to release it. When the ALSA driver stops, it
> gives back the card.
>
> So yes this reservation code is activated when JACK2 in compiled with
> D-Bus, but it is not coded in the "jackdbus" executable.
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>>
>> I have also been informed that there is a useful set of api functions
>> in pulseaudio that can be called directly to suspend PA, unload a
>> sink/source and load a new sink/source. I am wondering if there is
>> any specific reason other than no one having bothered to do it, that
>> this has not been included as a compile time option for jack
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> Please be more specific on what could be done.
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