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Florence, 21 September 2004
+++ Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze World Vision
Information for streaming
On Sep 23/24/25, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will
host three workshops (on "Audio/Video streaming with Free Software",
"Custom Debian Distributions" and "Migrating to Free Software") during
Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy).
It will be possible to remotely follow the workshops connecting to:
http://stream.bononia.it:8000/miu-fwv04.ogg
starting from 9:00 a.m.
During all seminars an IRC channel (server: irc.freenode.net, channel:
#miu-fwv04) will be open, where you will be able to ask your questions
to the speakers.
Special thanks to the Bononia team (http://www.bononia.it/) for their
technical support and for offering otheir bandwidth.
All presentations will be given in the english language. An
italian-english translation service will be available for the Q&A
session, after each talk.
Further information on the workshop will be published on:
http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040923.fwv.str/
For more details, feel free to contact:
Nicola Giosmin <n.giosmin(a)miu.firenzetecnologia.it>
and/or our office in Florence:
Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia
Borgo Albizi 15/a
50122 Firenze
Italy
Tel. no: +39 055 2001561
Fax. no: +39 055 2345762
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About Firenze Tecnologia: Firenze Tecnologia is the special agency of
the Chamber of Commerce of Florence devoted to study and facilitation
of technological innovation in the florentinian and tuscanian areas.
Please check: <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it/>.
About Media Innovation Unit: Media Innovation Unit is the research
unit of Firenze Tecnologia, devoted to research, development and
promotion of Free Software, Libre Content, Open Networks and New
Media.
About Firenze World Vision: Firenze World Vision is the event which
annually gathers the protagonists of innovation and of contemporary
communication processes, who compare their "visions" of the future.
Firenze World Vision deals with theory and practice, with ideas and
products, with global change and the ways our daily life is going to
change, well aware that the keys to read the contemporary world can be
found only through a multiform approach, without preconstituted views.
Please check: <http://www.firenzeworldvision.it/>.
JACK RELEASE 0.98.16
JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux
operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to
an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between
themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal
applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a
"plugin").
JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been
designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work.
This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of
all clients, and low latency operation.
JACK is available at http://jackit.sf.net
--CHANGES--
Buffer resizing enabled by default.
Added jack_ringbuffer_peak() to API.
Added jack_last_frame_time() to API.
--verbose will print the maximum usecs used on jackd termination.
Better compatibility with NPTL.
--version output changed for easier parsing.
New --unlock/-u option so that large libraries (gtk, qt, fltk, wine)
aren't memlocked.
Jack's tmp files now have the uid appended to them, so if there is a
crash, and then another user tries to use jack, it will still work.
New jack_create_thread() cleans up threading for portability. Available
for use by jack clients too.
New CoreAudio driver from the Jackosx project included in jack tree.
Prettier configure output.
and of course, updated documentation, better error reporting, and misc
internal fixes and cleanups.
Invitation for testing and API comments.
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/
Libgdither is a GPL'd library library for performing audio dithering on
PCM samples. The dithering process should be carried out before reducing
the bit width of PCM audio data (eg. float to 16 bit int conversions) to
preserve audio quality.
It can do conversions between any combination of:
in out (optionally interleaved)
-------------------------------------------------------------
normalised mono float 8bit unsigned ints
normalised mono double 16bit signed ints
32bit signed ints
normalised float
normalised double
At any bitdepth supported by the input and output formats
Instructions for testing are in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/TESTING
Basic docs can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/gdither.h
Examples of use can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/examples/ex1.c
Comments welcome,
Steve
Patchage is a modular patch bay for jack (and soon alsa sequencer)
This release fixes glaringly obvious bugs, 0.0.3 is broken. Also, you
can now run patchage without installing (in the src directory).
Thanks to Steve Harris and pasp(a)ll.pl for pointing out said bugs.
More information, downloads, and a screenshot at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage
-DR-
Hi,
Just less than a week after some user complaints about that glossy-glass
light effect featured on the front panel display, here comes a couple of
fixes that were made into this rather minor dot release.
Now's the perfect time for a recommended upgrade: qjackctl 0.2.11 is here,
grab it from:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Simply as is, as taken from the changelog:
* Fixed Input/Output channels settings, being now either enabled when the
ALSA driver is selected for Capture/Playback only.
* Shiny display effect: after some conservative user complaints this pure
cosmetic feature is now made optional ;)
Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hello all,
I just finished the jMax-SDIF package version 0.8 for jMax 4.1 CVS.
You can now import SDIF files into a track of matrices, and export a track to
SDIF. There is also an sdifinfo object that reads and outputs information
about the contents of an SDIF file.
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26076&package_id=1062…
SDIF is the Sound Description Interchange Format, see
http://www.ircam.fr/sdif and the freesoftware wiki
http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/wiki/index.php?pagename=HomePage.
Cheers...
...Diemo
--
Diemo Schwarz -- http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/schwarz
Analysis-Synthesis Team -- http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn
Real Time Applications Team -- http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou -- 1, place Igor-Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France
Phone +33-1-4478-4879 / -4824 / -1558 / Fax -1540
Version 0.8 2004-09-10 Diemo Schwarz <schwarz(a)ircam.fr>
* track import and export with track messages importsdif/exportsdif
* sdifinfo object reads an SDIF file and prints info about the
data in it or copies it to an atom matrix $mat if given
* needs SDIF 3.9
Version 0.7 2004-08-24 Diemo Schwarz <schwarz(a)ircam.fr>
* updated to jmax4.1 syntax
* don't output tuples but list
Version 0.6 2004-01-09 Diemo Schwarz <schwarz(a)ircam.fr>
Compatible with jMax 4.0.x (fts_post still called post),
needs SDIF 3.8
* dump message
* typechecking for write
* string matrix read/write
* fixed old "last matrix not returned" bug
Version 0.5 2003-05-30 Diemo Schwarz <schwarz(a)ircam.fr>
* released first version
* complete help patches
$Id: ReleaseNotes,v 1.2 2004/09/10 16:07:20 diemo Exp $
Hydrogen 0.9.0 is out! :)
Features:
__General__
* Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based
on QT 3.
* Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au
and .aiff formats.
* Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
__Sequencer and mixer__
* Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to
chain patterns into a song.
* Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable
pattern length.
* 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
* Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
* Ability to import/export song files.
* Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions.
* Multiple patterns playing at once.
__Other__
* OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports.
* ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
* Import/export of drumkits.
* Export song to wav file.
* Export song to midi file.
Changes:
* Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples).
* Multiple patterns playing at once.
* Added FLAC files support for songs and drumkits.
* Added pitch and gain properties per instrument.
* Improved song and pattern editor (selections, copy/move, etc..).
* Added a new selectable user interface (single panel).
* Better jack-transport support.
* Ability to set the note length in pattern editor
* Export song to standard midi file
Download:
http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net
Happy drumming! :^)
--
Alessandro <Comix> Cominu
http://hydrogen.sf.net
e-mail: comix(a)despammed.com
Icq: 116354077
Linux User # 203765
[...Codito Ergo Sum...]
Oggz 0.8.4 Release
------------------
liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.8.4.tar.gz
New in this release:
* added support for building on Symbian OS (by Colin Ward)
* new OGGZ_ERR_IO_AGAIN handling for network reads
* added test for reading packets one-by-one
* expanded --help output for oggzdump tool
* added option to run test suite under valgrind
Additionally, a thorough audit of memory leaks has been completed and
various minor bugs have been fixed.
About Oggz
----------
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump and oggzdiff.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Full API documentation.
* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
distribution.
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
if you try to write illegally structured packets.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to raw Ogg files.
* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis and Annodex
headers without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows
efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and
seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.
Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
Tools
-----
The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:
* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
from such a hexdump.
* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
license.
License
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Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/