From nobody Wed Mar 2 10:58:49 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCB519ED294 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2022 10:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@submerge.ch) Received: from c3po.matrixx.ch (c3po.matrixx.ch [80.74.145.109]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4K7rhh2Xw0z4hlT for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2022 10:59:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@submerge.ch) Received: from [145.40.196.39] (port=17571 helo=z800.localnet) by c3po.matrixx.ch with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1nPMgz-0001PH-Dk; Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:58:51 +0100 From: Florian Walpen To: Hans Petter Selasky Cc: Shane Ambler , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD port ALSA to JACK MIDI, a2jmidid Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:58:49 +0100 Message-ID: <2239076.sMrx5ctUpN@z800> In-Reply-To: <8c9be8ae-2169-17ad-27cf-be6e286d5bd3@selasky.org> References: <8c9be8ae-2169-17ad-27cf-be6e286d5bd3@selasky.org> List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-multimedia List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - c3po.matrixx.ch X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - submerge.ch X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: c3po.matrixx.ch: authenticated_id: fw@submerge.ch X-Authenticated-Sender: c3po.matrixx.ch: fw@submerge.ch X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4K7rhh2Xw0z4hlT X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dev@submerge.ch designates 80.74.145.109 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dev@submerge.ch X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.16 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; HAS_X_SOURCE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.90)[-0.902]; HAS_X_ANTIABUSE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21069, ipnet:80.74.144.0/20, country:CH]; HAS_X_AS(0.00)[fw@submerge.ch]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; CTE_CASE(0.50)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.96)[-0.957]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.996]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[submerge.ch]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; HAS_X_GMSV(0.00)[fw@submerge.ch]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-multimedia]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:09:39 AM CET Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > I'm wondering if it would be better to integrate JACK support straight > into alsa-seq-server . But then there might be some problems starting > and stopping jackd. Or I need to have a thread to wait for jackd to startup. > > --HPS Isn't alsa-seq-server meant to be run as root / RC service? AFAIK JACK clients and server have to be run by the same user. Also it might be a bit confusing with audio/jack optionally depending on audio/alsa-lib and alsa-seq-server on audio/jack... >From a user perspective, having ALSA MIDI support directly in JACK would be preferable, I think. I'll have a look into that, probably next weekend. Did you see any major problems there? Apart from that, I'm not opposed to any solution that works. With jack_umidi, alsa-seq-server and a2jmidid we already have some options, which is nice. Flo