Phonon's backends to JACK.

[Mark Constable]

On 2011-06-12 11:45 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> No one would really want to run JACK on a standard consumer system, so
> it's typically for people doing some degree of pro-audio work.

I've never appreciated this argument. In what sense is a consumer not
in a position where they want to record or send audio to or from any of
the many audio enabled applications available to them?

ie; smplayer -> mumble (or even skype) <-> arecord (for a podcast)

Regardless of the professionality of the situation, avoiding dropouts
and xruns is a fundamental requirement when dealing with audio.

> Therefore simply turning off the connection from PA to JACK it
> becomes relatively easy to put up a brick wall between any consumer
> apps that are running or start up and your pro-audio work.

But what if I want to record from consumer grade applications?

> Also, keep in mind that phonon is *not* a sound server. It's a
> library. PA and JACK are the servers, so it's not cascading 3 sound
> servers, just 2.

That's still one too many.