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@@ -13,27 +13,29 @@ Its relatively easy to get audio from GStreamer to flow via JACK:
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The name of the package containing this plugin will vary
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from distribution to distribution:
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on Fedora its called "gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extra",
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on Ubuntu its called "gst-plugins-bad", etc. etc.
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on Ubuntu its called "gst-plugins-bad", etc. etc.
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2. Next, you need to configure GStreamer to tell it to use this plugin
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for audio output. There are 3 methods available:
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* Through the command line using gconf2 (you may need to install this first)
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* Through the command line using gconf2 (you may need to install this
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first)
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* Install/run gconf-editor, which is a general purpose utility
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for configuring many GNOME-centric applications
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for configuring many GNOME-centric applications.
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* Some systems may have the gstreamer-properties command available,
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which offers a graphical tool for configuring gstreamer
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which offers a graphical tool for configuring gstreamer.
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3. Your goal is set the value of:
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* /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink
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* /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink
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* `/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink`
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* `/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink`
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to this value: `jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000`. The exact value of
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`buffer-time` doesn't matter too much, but higher values reduce the chance of
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glitches/drop-outs in the audio stream. You might also choose to set
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/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink to the same value, but its
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less likely to be useful to you.
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The impact of this will vary depending on how much your system uses GStreamer.
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On modern GNOME-based systems, it will effectively divert all system sounds
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and all audio playback via JACK. On other systems (e.g. KDE-based systems) it
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will have less of an effect, though it will still impact specific applications
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that use GStreamer.
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`buffer-time` doesn't matter too much, but higher values reduce
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the chance of glitches/drop-outs in the audio stream. You might also
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choose to set `/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink` to
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the same value, but its less likely to be useful to you.
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The impact of this will vary depending on how much your system uses
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GStreamer. On modern GNOME-based systems, it will effectively divert
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all system sounds and all audio playback via JACK. On other systems
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(e.g. KDE-based systems) it will have less of an effect, though it will
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still impact specific applications that use GStreamer.

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