On Sunday 02 May 2010 15:50:31 Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:34:23PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > I need to "connect" vlc###->system in the qjackctl connection pane to > > hear music. At each track playing an audio-CD, for example, it > > disconnects and I need to reconnect to hear music. Not a desirable > > behavior! > > Shouldn't it be sufficient to go to the preference menu, select "Show > all settings", then choose Audio/Output modules/JACK and say "connect to > clients matching" with or without "automatically connect to writable > clients"? This, once found, works just fine! No need to touch qjackctl at all.
Question is: what should be the default mode when jackd is found running on program start (which would busy up alsa)? I think it should simply play. At worst, auto-connect should be in the simple options and default checked. > > Haven't tried it, but if you enter something like "system:play*", it > might do the trick. > > > BTW: Unless you really need to separate the vlc outputs from all other > system outputs, I recommend using the pulseaudio audio plugin instead > and then use pulseaudio-module-jack to bridge to jackd. This way, your > connections are always on, no need to mess with qjackctl at all. ;) I wish pulse was up to snuff but it is just too troublesome. Someday. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
