[LAU] First release of zita-njbridge

Russell Hanaghan hanaghan.osaudio at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 19:18:31 UTC 2014


Hello Mr Fons!

I have lots of time! lol 

I'm curious... This application excites me based on the following theoretical layout:

Budget studio with say at least 1 strong central DAW in a control room. Other satellite rooms tht can be linked with Gig Ethernet and smaller (cheaper) platforms in those rooms for maybe recording certain instruments (drums might be a bitch even at low latencies) an feeding those channels back to the master. Effectively replacing shielded audio cables (which run into real money) for a Cat5e or Cat6 cable and gig ports either side. Gig switches and cards have become cheap, especially compared to half decent shielded pair audio cable. 

Is this reasonable as it relates to the application? 

Thnx for your efforts!

~ Russell

> On Aug 4, 2014, at 8:20 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> 
> Zita-njbridge-0.1.0 is now available.
> 
> Zita-j2n and zita-n2j are command line Jack clients to
> transmit full quality multichannel audio over a local IP
> network, with adaptive resampling by the receiver(s).
> 
> Main features:
> 
> * One-to-one (UDP) or one-to-many (multicast).
> * Sender and receiver(s) can each have their own
>  sample rate and period size. No word clock sync
>  is assumed.
> * Up to 64 channels, 16 or 24 bit or float samples.
> * Receiver(s) can select any combination of channels.
> * Low latency, optional additional buffering.
> * High quality jitter-free resampling.
> * Graceful handling of xruns, skipped cycles, lost
>  packets and freewheeling.
> * IP6 fully supported.
> * Requires zita-resampler, no other non-standard 
>  dependencies.
> 
> Note that zita-njbridge is meant for use on a *local*
> network providing more or less reliable delivery with
> low to moderate delay. It may work or not on the wider
> internet if receiver(s) are configured for additional
> buffering, and if you are lucky. Performance on wire-
> less networks is just a matter of chance.
> 
> You will need a fairly recent Jack version, as the
> code uses jack_get_cycle_times() and no fallback for
> that is provided.
> 
> Download from <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html>
> 
> See man zita-njbridge for more info.
> 
> -- 
> FA
> 
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