Re: [Jack-Devel] jack and bluetooth?

On 23/01/12 08:36, Paul Davis wrote:
>> http://alsa.opensrc.org/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_bridge
>
> actually, no. this technique is useful when you have an application
> that uses the ALSA PCM API and you want it to talk to JACK (and for
> whatever reason do not want or cannot use the ALSA JACK PCM plugin).

Like when using Flash in a browser or Virtualbox. Using snd_aloop is
generally a more reliable solution mostly because it provides long
term persistent ports to Jack that don't disappear. For all it's
inefficiencies, it's still the best Pulse-free audio mixing solution
for linux atm.

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