Hi,

For those of you who are brave enought here are some tips to get ekiga using jack RIGHT NOW (debian centric) :

Install packages : jackd, xmms, xmms-jack, qjackctl, libasound2-plugins.

Add this line to your /etc/fstab :
Dans mon fstab (better performance with jack) :
# JACK
none         /tmp     tmpfs   defaults        0       0

If you are really brave turn your kernel to low latency (THE best performance) :
apt-get install realtime-lsm realtime-lsm-source module-assistant
cd /usr/src/
tar jxvf realtime-lsm.tar.bz2
module-assistant build realtime-lsm
dpkg -i realtime-lsm-module-2.6*.deb
Using Debian, your user should be in the audio group with gid 29 :
modprobe realtime gid=29 (to get the module kernel working)

backup your ~/.asoundrc and replace it with this one :
pcm.jacker {
        type jack
        playback_ports {
                0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
                1 alsa_pcm:playback_2
        }
        capture_ports {
                0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
                1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
        }
}

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "jacker"

}

Launch jackd :
$ jackd -s -d alsa -d hw:0 -r 48000 -H -z s
or simply : $ jackd -d alsa

Launch qjackctl
$ qjackctl

Launch xmms, go in pref to change the E/S audio, the output plugin : choose Jack Driver

Launch ekiga (choose ALSA and "default" as audio device for IN and OUT)

Use the window "Connect" in qjackctl to mix stuffs from xmms in ekiga.

Hope this will help,
Yannick

Well, yes, it would be a nice idea. As it would be a nice idea if the various desktops (gnome, kde, xfce, etc) chose one and the same sound daemon, and that sound daemon where of good quality.

It is also a nice idea, because it allows you to use LADSPA plugins to
change your voice and such. :)
This could be really funny with jack-rack.
http://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/

I vote for a jack plugin in Ekiga.

If the gstreamer audio plugin gets to work, then adding jack support to it should be pretty easy.

Assigning to myself.

The jack framework doesn't look like something we can seriously show to our users (see bug #555346)