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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2006-02-21 16:13:57 +0000
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2006-02-21 16:13:57 +0000
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- Reorganized the directory structure: Now each plugin(s) is loaded in own subdirectory. - Added polypaudio plugin by Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se> - Fixed COPYING file to LGPL (under which all codes are released, so far)
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+JACK <--> ALSA PCM plugin
+=========================
+
+This plugin converts the ALSA API over JACK (Jack Audio Connection
+Kit, http://jackit.sf.net) API. ALSA native applications can work
+transparently together with jackd for both playback and capture.
+
+ ALSA apps (playback) -> ALSA-lib -> JACK plugin -> JACK deamon
+ ALSA apps (capture) <- ALSA-lib <- JACK plugin <- JACK daemon
+
+This plugin provides the PCM type "jack". The typical configuration
+looks like below:
+
+ pcm.jack {
+ type jack
+ playback_ports {
+ 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
+ 1 alsa_pcm:playback_1
+ }
+ capture_ports {
+ 0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
+ 1 alsa_pcm:pcapture_1
+ }
+ }
+
+Put the above to ~/.asoundrc (or /etc/asound.conf), and use "jack" PCM
+with your ALSA apps. For example,
+
+ % aplay -Djack foo.wav
+
+The jack plugin can have two config options: playback_ports and
+capture_ports. Both are compound type config, including the following
+format:
+ {
+ channel port-name
+ channel port-name
+ ...
+ }
+The first argument is the channel number (zero-based) and the second
+is the corresponding JACK port name.
+
+The plugin is installed in /usr/lib/alsa-lib directory as default,
+which is the default search path of additional plugins for alsa-lib.
+On a 64bit system like x86-64, the proper prefix option (typically,
+--prefix=/usr/lib64) must be given to configure script.
+