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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009626 | ardour | bugs | public | 2024-01-28 10:39 | 2024-01-28 15:11 |
| Reporter | SereTuAmantisBandido | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | GNU | OS | Linux | OS Version | (any) |
| Product Version | 8.2 | ||||
| Summary | 0009626: [Manjaro-Plasma-Wayland] Ardour interferes or blocks other video/audio players | ||||
| Description | When launching Ardour at least Firefox and SMplayer audio and vídeo get blocked, frozen, they stop playing, and VLC audio stops reproducing (video is not affected in VLC). Any instance of the mentioned programs launched when Ardour is runing is also afected. Closing Ardour brings back the normal multimedia reproduction. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | A) -Open any audio/video in Firefox, SMPlayer or VLC. - Open Ardour. - VLC audio and Firefox and SMplayer video and audio will stop working. - Close Ardour - Video and audio will come back. B) - Open Ardour. - No video/audio be playable in Firefox or SMplayer, and only video will be played in VLC. - Close Ardour. - All video/audio players will recover their normal behaviour. | ||||
| Tags | 8.2, bug | ||||
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Ardour uses your soundcard exclusively. So you can't play audio in other apps, when they are configured to use the soundcard Ardour uses. I have a usb soundcard which ardour uses and a internal Laptop soundcard. So if I want to play audio in vlc etc. when Ardour is open, vlc uses the internal soundcard. That works. |
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With Ardour/ALSA that is expected behavior. Ardour requests (and required) exclusive access to the soundcard. This way not other application can change settings (sample-rate, buffersize) while Ardour is running and Ardour can directly synchronize using hardware interrupts (This is not Linux specific, and common for pro-audio, e.g. ASIO on Windows). To share the soundcard with other applications you can use JACK or PipeWire/JACK. |
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Hi! Ok. I did not knew that it had the need of having exclusive access to the soundcard, but once explained it has all the sense in the world. Thank you for your time! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2024-01-28 10:39 | SereTuAmantisBandido | New Issue | |
| 2024-01-28 10:41 | SereTuAmantisBandido | Tag Attached: 8.2 | |
| 2024-01-28 10:41 | SereTuAmantisBandido | Tag Attached: bug | |
| 2024-01-28 11:45 | axra | Note Added: 0028479 | |
| 2024-01-28 14:06 | x42 | Note Added: 0028480 | |
| 2024-01-28 15:10 | SereTuAmantisBandido | Note Added: 0028481 | |
| 2024-01-28 15:11 | SereTuAmantisBandido | Status | new => closed |
| 2024-01-28 15:11 | SereTuAmantisBandido | Resolution | open => no change required |
