UbuntuStudioControls

Revision 8 as of 2013-01-05 21:10:30

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Resources

Main purpose of ubuntustudio-controls:

  • Administer multimedia specific system settings (audio privilege, performance tweaks)
  • User Help (links to web pages at a minimum)
  • Do system check at boot, and alert user if system is badly configured

Possible other purposes:

  • Multimedia specific package management
  • Integrated audio system control (pulseaudio, jack)
    • Ability to shut down PA
    • Read Sample Rate, Bit Rate, and Buffer Size, and display it

Design:

AppIndicator

On systems that support it, there will be a menu in the app-indicator area:

ubuntustudio-controls-app-indicator.png

Features (ideas)

Audio

  • administer user realtime privilege
  • system check info (realtime, shared irqs, etc)
  • jack control (a separate application)
    • auto-set optimal settings (analyze system)
    • start/stop

    • set device (persistent between boots, not based on hw:<n>)

    • set latency (slider)
    • set samplerate
    • advanced settings
      • jackd settings..
    • jack net stuff?
      • jack net stuff here
  • zita-a2j (gui interface, to enable multiple audio devices)