[LAD] [ANN] jack_capture V0.9.40

[hermann]

Hi Kjetil

Thanks for the new release, jack_capture-0.9.40 build and run/work well
here on my debian/sid system.
The $(DESTDIR) variable in the makefile makes it easy to build the deb
packet. :-)

regards  hermann

Am Dienstag, den 26.01.2010, 11:19 +0100 schrieb Kjetil S. Matheussen:
> (I don't agree about the linux-audio-* mailing list
> announcement policy, so from now on, program announcements
> will only be posted to linux-audio-announce at lists.linuxaudio.org !)
> 
> 
> 
> Download from
> =============
> http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D
> 
> 
> 
> jack_capture
> ============
> jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack.
> 
> The default operation of the program is executed by writing "jack_capture"
> in the terminal without any extra command line options:
> 
>     $ jack_capture
> 
> ...which will record what you hear in your loudspeakers
> into a stereo wav file.
> 
> 
> 
> Most important new features since 0.9.36
> ========================================
> * Direct support for mp3 using liblame.
> * Console cleanup. Terminal should not be messy
>    when quitting jack_capture.
> * Better buffering schemes.
> * Less used memory.
> 
> 
> 
> Features
> ========
> * Autogenerated filenames are unique and humanly readable.
> 
> * The 4GB size barrier for wav files is handled by continuing
>    writing to new files when reaching 4GB.
> 
> * Supports all soundfile formats supported by sndfile.
>    (wav, aiff, ogg, flac, wavex, au, etc.)       (option: -f <format>)
> 
> * Supports mp3 by using liblame.                (option: -mp3)
> 
> * Option for writing raw 16 bit data to stdout. (option: -ws)
> 
> * Built-in console meter, plus option for automatically starting
>    and stopping the Meterbridge jack meter program. Port
>    connections to Meterbridge are done automatically, and
>    on the fly, by jack_capture.
> 
> * jack_capture can connect to any input or output jack port.
> 
>    When "connecting" to a jack input port (i.e. a writable
>    port), jack_capture constantly monitors which jack ports
>    which are connected to the input port, and make sure
>    jack_capture is always connected to the same ports.
> 
>    In other words, jack_capture will reconnect its ports
>    automatically during recording to match the connections
>    of the ports. This is for instance convenient when
>    recording the playback ports since jack_capture can be
>    started first, and then other programs can start and
>    stop at any moment while all sound still should be recorded.
> 
> * No limit on the number of jack ports jack_capture can connect to.
>    (I.e. the --port argument can be specified more than once, plus
>    that it accepts wildcard arguments. For instance,
> 
>         jack_capture --port "*"
> 
>    will connect to all current jack ports, both input and output
>    ports, except jack_capture's own ports.)
> 
> * Buffers are automatically increased during runtime to prevent
>    underruns and to avoid wasting memory by preallocating too much.
>    (handled by using lockless atomic fifo/lifo queues to store
>    temporary sound data instead of ringbuffers)
> 
> * The disk thread is automatically reniced to a higher priority when
>    using more than half of the buffer.
> 
> * Significantly better recording performance than Ardour.
>    (probably because jack_capture writes all channels into
>    only one file and that it is not creating peak files).
>    (tested on athlonXP)
> 
> * No problem writing at least 256 channels of 32 bit wav at once to a
>    local hard drive. (tested on icore7)
> 
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