[MPlayer-users] mplayer's jack name

[etienne deleflie]

Ivo wrote:

>On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:06, etienne deleflie wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>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).
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>Post a full bug-report, MPlayer's output, etc. See:
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I have not yet acsertained if the bug is an Mplayer bug, a Jack bug, a 
PD bug (jack software that I am using), a qjackctl bug, or lots of other 
possible things.

... do you still want me to post a bug report?

Etienne

>http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html
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>IIRC Reimar did some Jack stuff a while ago so maybe he'll take a look at 
>it.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>As I don't use Jack, what would you suggest to be a good client name? Maybe 
>make it configurable from the command line, like:
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>mplayer -ao jack:clientname=foobar ... etc...
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>And fall back to "MPlayer [PID]" if none is specified, so people can still 
>launch multiple instances of mplayer -ao jack without client name 
>collision. What do you think? This would be easy to implement.
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>--Ivo
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