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 -- Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 - eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now moved to the corridor: Hermes! (http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net) (mostly German) http://www.denchris.de - http://www.audiominds.com http://www.motagator.net/bands/65 <GunPG KeyID: B8382C97> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 19:58 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: > 2008/6/20 Ichthyostega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ...if videojack was already there and mature enough to meet the > > feature set of Cinelerra, then probably we'd go a similar route as > > Ardour did for sound. > > Last year, as our first planning started, I considered shortly to > > create something new, which would be sort-of a jack-for-video, and > > to build the whole App on top of it. > > The Problem that I see with video-jack when compared to audio-jack is > the following. > > For an application like Ardour, audio-jack provides reliable access to > high-end multi-channel audio hardware. Video-Jack however, in its > current state does not help in getting high-end Video-IO-Boards to > work with an application, it is only good for routing video between > apps, which is nice, but imho not the most interesting part. I'd > rather have a solid API to access Video-Capture (and Playback) boards > in an universal and simple, yet reliable and performant way. > > Cheers > -Richard > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
