[linux-audio-user] [ANN] jack_capture v0.0.1

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Fri Nov 25 09:04:11 EST 2005


On Friday 25 November 2005 10:28, Florian Schmidt was like:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:09:23 +0000
>
> james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Nov, 2005 at 12:34AM -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen spake thus:
> > > http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/
> >
> > I normally use timemachine for recording like this - how does this
> > differ?
> >
> > Oh, and the one thing that timemachine always annoys me with is it's
> > aparrent inability to write files that can be read by anything except
> > audacity.  Does this do better?
>
> Which can be remedied by reading the timemachine documentation (SCNR):
>
>
> ----snip
> ~$ timemachine -h
> Usage timemachine: [-h] [-i] [-c channels] [-n jack-name]
>         [-t buffer-length] [-p file prefix] [-f format] [port-name ...]
>
>         -h      show this help
>         -i      interactive mode (console instead of X11) also enabled
>                 if DISPLAY is unset
>         -c      specify number of recording channels
>         -n      specify the JACK name timemachine will use
>         -t      specify the pre-recording buffer length
>         -p      specify the saved file prefix, may include path
>         -f      specify the saved file format
>
>         channels must be in the range 1-8, default 2
>         jack-name, default "TimeMachine"
>         file-prefix, default "tm-"
>         buffer-length, default 10 secs
>         format, default 'w64', options: wav, w64
>
> specifying port names to connect to on the command line overrides -c
> ---- snap

Exactly.
I rather like timemachine, precisely because I can make .wavs with it that I 
can drop straight into ardour without any mucking about.
-- 
cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim



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