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Welcome to the JACK Trac

These pages are a starting point for users and developers willing to take advantage of the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Still don't know what jack is useful for ? You might want to take a look at this introduction

Along with helping you following the development progress on JACK (see the roadmap), you will find here a lot of useful documentation and walk-throughs for various common use cases.

Walk-throughs

User walk-throughs

• Configuring and running a JACK server
• A simple audio chain running through JACK
• Running pulseaudio on top of JACK
• Using JACK or JACK2 (jacknone) over a network or the internet
• Using JACK2 over a network
• Using DBUS jack_control tool
• jack_session for users
• Troubleshooting
• Q: What's the difference between Jack 1 and Jack 2?
• Cgroups

Manpages

• jackd(1)

Developer walk-throughs

• Basic topics
  • Creating a simple audio client
  • Creating a simple midi client
  • Creating an in process client
• Advanced topics
  • The wait/signal model versus process model
  • Making alsa_in and alsa_out better
  • Overview of latency, buffer underrun and callback (process) model
  • JACK2 versus JACK1 client threading model
  • Some stuff about NetJack1
  • Development tools
  • Using JACK in C++ projects
  • jack_session for developers

Packaging guidelines

• D-Bus related packaging scenarios
• Installation layout
• Possibly incompatible changes in JACK client API
• Suggested packaging approach

Developer Information

• JACK2 coding style guidelines
• A guide to the Jack1 source code
• A guide to the Jack2 source code
• RepositoryLayout: the layout of the current repository
• MailingLists: jack has several mailinglists useful for developers
• TransportSupport: which applications support Transport API to which extent
• TransportLimitations: some observations about the current transport/timebase mechanism
• The JACK API Reference Manual

Proposals

• MIDI API Extension for System Exclusive Messages

Registration

The login/password combination for this Trac site is the same as the one for the main site www.jackaudio.org.