On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:21 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:22 -0500, Tom Poe wrote:
> Hello, All: Pleased to see activity on the list. I work with a small
> group on Open Studios, a nonprofit relying on both Fedora and CCRMA to
> provide multimedia capability for users. Our target audience lies
> mainly with independent musicians, inner-city neighborhoods, nonprofits,
> etc., that are looking for multimedia capability, but generally lack
> money to purchase proprietary products.
>
> Greg mentions that one topic of high interest is discussing how Fedora
> and CCRMA can work together to create multimedia capability in a way
> that benefits everyone involved. My first question to the list, and
> Fernando, is, what applications are on the short list (if there is one
> at this point) for moving to Fedora Extras?
The most important "enabler" application is the Jack Audio Connection
Kit sound server. Pretty much everything of value for audio and music is
a client to Jack, so without Jack we are stuck.
[MUNCH]
I'm attaching my current unedited (ie: not edible by Fedora Extras :-)
spec file for Jack... This is for CVS of the clock_fix branch, which
fixes problems with low level timing on dual core Athlon processors (you
also need a recent kernel that does not select the TSC for internal
timing on those processors to make everything work correctly)
Ah, I forgot - if you are using a proper "preempt" kernel then you also
want Rui Nuno Capella's rtirq script (also part of Planet CCRMA) which
optimizes the priority of irq processes to favor audio i/o - that's
mentioned in the jack spec file, that's why I remembered.
-- Fernando