From kde-multimedia Fri Jul 29 20:03:51 2005 From: Allan Sandfeld Jensen Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:03:51 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: aRts in trunk Message-Id: <200507292203.52275.kde () carewolf ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=112266744623915 On Friday 29 July 2005 21:46, Mark Constable wrote: > Exactly, if it's a part of KDE it would get so much more exposure > and focus that the setup difficulties would dealt with. That's what > using KDE is all about, hiding the ugly stuff from users. > We can't do that. Last time I checked jack only worked on linux, and required a custom kernel patch applied to get the real-time privileges it needs to not drop out _all_ the time. The design is basically flawed for desktop audio since it delegates real-time low-latency work loads through unix pipes to the audio applications. You cannot expect all audio applications to run real-time and you can not expect users to apply custom patches that allow jack to hand out real-time privileges. And no matter what KDE does, a pretty GUI can not hide applying kernel patches and a design that is just not suitable for desktop usage. `Allan _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia