[MPlayer-users] mplayer's jack name

[etienne deleflie]

Hello,

I am using Jack .....  which seems to work (reasonably) with Mplayer... 
although if I move any of the windows on my screen (even non-Mplayer 
ones) Mplayer dies instantly. (could be a Jack RT problem, dont know).

Anyway, ..... my issue is that Mplayer advertises its Jack connections 
as "Mplayer [2032]" ... with what seems to be the PID in square 
brackets. This is actually not good because it means that I can not 
pre-configure my Jack connections since I dont know what the PID of 
Mplayer is going to be.

Using qjackctl, it is possible to define (in an XML file) what jack 
inputs are connected to what jack outputs. This is extremeley usefull if 
one is booting up multiple jack apps all interconnected. .... all the 
connections automatically hook up to each other.

Mplayer seems to be the only app which uses its PID as its Jack name, 
and this means that the Jack connections all have to be manually 
connected everytime.

Etienne Deleflie.