Re: [Alsa-user] OT: multimedia repositories for Debian...

[James S. <Sha...@ea...>]

> I ended up recompiling an old version of xmms from source under Debian 
> to get the real-time support I wanted, then compiled plugins from source 
> as I needed them, using the checkinstall utility to create .deb files.
> 
> Since this is the alsa-user list, does anyone know of current media 
> players that use ALSA that support real-time priority? I want to play 
> files of all audio formats, MIDI and streaming media without skipping on 
> older hardware (-:.
> 
> Arthur.

For jackd it wasn't so much of the media players that needed realtime priority.  Modifying /etc/security/limits.conf gave me realtime priority at the user level.  Just three new entries in that file:

@audio		-	rtprio		99
@audio		-	nice		-10
@audio		-	memlock		65536

And no need for other repositories since I compiled from source.  It was just one package of 2,000+ installed packages.  Although there are others like audacity compiled with --port-audio=v19.  Timidity with sequencer support and jackd.  And various other annoyances.  I've pretty much run on highly stripped, custom kernels since I was able to successfully create one.  So recompiling from source is a no brainer.  And a lot less annoying on todays faster cpus.

HTH,
- James