[LAU] Lack of smpte support simply sux

[Robin Gareus]

On 12/25/2012 06:00 PM, Eric Steinberg wrote:
> I know that there's an old tool for reading ltc under jack, but it's dead
> dead dead. 

far from dead:
 http://x42.github.com/libltc/
 https://github.com/x42/ltc-tools

> MLT has no way to read VITC. Why is this? It very much
> eliminates linux usability for professional tasks, like syncing dual system
> sound and picture. Am i missing something? Is (are) there tools for doing
> that? I'm glad that bwf files snap to proper location in Ardour, but
> there's no way to nudge picture to match and limited format support.

The former is already in Ardour3: http://gareus.org/wiki/a3extsync
Video timeline support will merged into A 3.1 early 2013.

Cheers!
robin