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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Dan Capp  wrote:

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> why install pulseaudio in the first place? I don't know to be honest. I'm

> still getting to grips with how Linux audio works and what the various

> drivers and tools even do, let alone how they do it. So it's good to hear

> someone with a different perspective on the usefulness of PulseAudio etc.

> The KXStudio website states the following:

> "users will be glad to know that Jack2 is present and that *all* audio

> output is sent to it. This includes Pulse-Audio, which means that you don't

> have to stop Jack if you need to, for example, open a Web Browser to watch

> some tutorial videos."

> I've read lots of people agree that this is a great idea - I'm still trying

> to fully understand why because it seems that I DO need to stop Jack, or at

> least re-route it, if I want to open a web browser and watch some tutorial

> videos.

Personally, I would say that KXStudio has made a mistake here. There

is no reason to run PulseAudio for this purpose. Torben wrote a

libflashsupport-jack which routes Flash straight to JACK, and

http://jackaudio.org/faq describes ways to get a variety of other

desktop software to talk to JACK. I spend all day listening to

internet radio and my own music collection via Rhythmbox, browing the

catalog at emusic.com, watching Flash *and* working on Ardour ... all

via JACK and all without a large, complex layer like PulseAudio in the

middle.
Some of these are not quite as robust as they should be but it would

be far better (I think) to focus resources on making them more robust

than introducing PulseAudio as a desktop<->JACK middle layer.

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