Hi,

in another post, I have already mentioned this problem. I want to do
some audio streaming. The problem is that I want to play music *and* use
a microphone. Audio streaming for just playing music is no problem. This
is my configuration:

- Debian Lenny/Testing. A friend of mine has tried exactly the same
things I describe below on Etch. The same problems have occured.

- icecast2 as a streaming server on another Debian machine

- aumix and alsamixer as mixers

- qjackctl (GUI) and jackd as a server to connect the player to the
streaming server icecast2. This is necessary if you want to play both
music and speech through a microphone

- darksnow (GUI) and darkice as audio streamer

- xmms as mp3 player

- xmms-jack plugin as an interface between xmms and jackd

All components work fine except for xmms-jack. It makes xmms, qjackctl
and jackd crash on start. So, I tried another player.

I decided to try xmms2 which has the xmms2-plugin-jack. This plugin
doesn't crash but doesn't work at all. It seems as if streaming is
impossible with xmms2, too. So, I tried a third player.

My next choice was amarok. Unfortunately, amarok seems to be completely
unable to connect to jackd. I haven't found a way to do this. And yes, I
have asked Google. ;-)

Does anybody know how I can succeed with streaming with jackd? Which
player has a plugin for jack that really works?

TIA

Alex

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Hi Alex,

Alexander Schestag wrote:

> - Debian Lenny/Testing. A friend of mine has tried exactly the same
> things I describe below on Etch. The same problems have occured.

Ah, yes, that's me. ;-)

> - qjackctl (GUI) and jackd as a server to connect the player to the
> streaming server icecast2. This is necessary if you want to play both
> music and speech through a microphone

No, jackd does not connect to icecast2.  This connection is made by
darkice.  jackd only connects to all audio sources, collects all audio
input and gives it to darkice for (re-)encoding and sending to icecast2.

> - darksnow (GUI) and darkice as audio streamer

yes. :-)

> All components work fine except for xmms-jack. It makes xmms, qjackctl
> and jackd crash on start. So, I tried another player.

To be more detailed:  xmms-jack seems to communicate with jackd, it
crashes only when you start to play a song.  The xmms process remains in
RAM, causing a CPU usage of almost 100%, until it is killed.

On etch, jackd/qjackctl did not crash every time I tried, but most times.

> Does anybody know how I can succeed with streaming with jackd? Which
> player has a plugin for jack that really works?

Or who can repair the bug in xmms-jack 0.16-2? ;-)

Greets, Sabine
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Hi,

the problem is solved. audacious works great with jackd. Thanks to
Linonut for this hint once again! :-)

Alex

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