On 26/06/2013 11:31, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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On 2013-06-26 11:16, batinste wrote:
I guess that asking Ardour's main dev (Paul Davis, also one of jackd's devs) about the expected behaviour of a jack app would be a good idea.
i'd rather ask the entire jack-dev crew.
Eventually, but Paul's take on a professionnal jack app is interesting.
while paul has written the original jack server, he is no longer the main authore of jackd2.
I was mentioning his name as someone who develops a jack app as well as someone who knows what's under jackd's hood.
~$ pd-extended
4 seconds trying to get that there's no jackd running... Did i specified -jack ? No ! So why is Pd-ext trying to start it ?
most likely because you *did* specify to start "-jack" in your preferences.
-jack flag is nowhere to be found on any config file in my system. ~$ cat .pdextended | grep flags flags: ~$ cat /etc/pd-extended/default.pdextended | grep flags flags:
but seriously: i don't think this is a very good example (most likely you were trying to prove that my claim that "pd should not try to be too clever" was incorrect in many cases).
Nope, i think your point is good ! Pd should only do what you told it to do !
what i did forget in my post is: yes, i would like to have an "-audio auto" switch, that will try to get *any* audio backend (e.g. jack, alsa, oss, dummy; in that order)
agree
i even think that this should be the default (e.g. when you start Pd with no arguments and uninitialized settings).
not agree. What if i don't want to make sound with Pd ? And, worst, what if i want to ? Especially on linux, where the flash/alsa/pulseaudio is a mess... I just tried : launch pd-extended -alsa, open a youtube vid : the vid plays for 4 sec, then stops. Open a youtube vid, then launch pd-extended -alsa : the vid plays, pd-ext is unusable and unresponsive when i try to create and patch. I want the choice. ("use an other OS/distro" is not a valid criticism ;) ) That is why the "audio configuration" menu and the config files are there for. Unless the "automagical audio backend selection" box is ticked, i don't want pd to do anything.
but if the user specifies a given audio backend (e.g. "-audio jack", or "-jack" as we currently call it), then Pd should not do something else.
agree
those who don't like the default "any" config, could specify multiple backends, e.g. "-audio alsa,oss"
Why not
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