is it pulseaudio vs jack?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:18:04 +0100
"David Nadasi" <macrophone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have a look on this schema:
> http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/11/05/how-pulseaudio-works/
> 
> According to this, I think you should use jackd instead of pulseaudio
> when you need realtime, low latency, etc...
> 
> Jack and pulseaudio are on the same software "layer". I mean just
> after alsa and the kernel.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/1/30, '2+ <electriclightheads at gmail.com>:
> >
> > installed UbuntuHardyAlpha3 from an alternative iso as mostly CUI
> > system cuz i wanted to apt-get yatm & awesome
> > and at the homepage found this said about pulseaudio
> > "Alpha 3 includes PulseAudio enabled by default."
> >
> > am reading
> > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
> > but at this moment doing nothing pulse oriented
> > still using the machine in a jack oriented way
> >
> > the site says almost nothing about the relation with jack
> > and one of my friend says it might work like in a
> > jack >> alsa >> pulseaudio way
> > is this true?
> >
> > hmmm...how should i be prepared for pulseaudio?
> > quit using jack?
> > but my favorite app SuperCollider & ChucK might be compiled to use
> > jack
> >
> > and i didn't install Gnome but xserver-xorg & awesome
> > then pulseaudio isn't there?
> > how should i test if pulse is setup properly?
> >
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As far as I understand it pulse audio replaces esd and artsd
soundservers. If you do audioproduction and need low latency and/or
routing jack is the soundserver of choice.
Afaik pulseaudio should shut down automatically when you start jack.

Best Regards
	Philipp