Re: [LAD] [ANN] jack_capture V0.9.40

From: hermann <brummer-@web.de>
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 12:49:33 EET

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@email-addr-hidden !)
>
>
>
> 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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