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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Junichi Uekawa
  • Date: 2008-09-26 09:58:52 UTC
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  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20080926095852-k3v9ewhmxpaltusw
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Status: FROZEN
 
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(edi-35): JACK support to ecasound's interactive mode (EIAM)
 
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         - submitted: kaiv, 16.11.2002
 
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         - frozen: kaiv, 20.08.2003
 
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Reasons for the frozen status:
 
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- duplicated effort with projects like 'qjackconnect',
 
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  'jackd_plumbing', 'jackctl', and various others
 
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  implementing good set of features (especially client and port name
 
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  completion is not a trivial job)
 
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Details:
 
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- add a set of commands to control JACK using EIAM commands
 
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- provided services
 
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    - connecting and disconnection ports
 
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        - jack-connect <srcport>,<targetport>
 
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        - jack-disconnect --"--
 
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    - querying list of (all) connections
 
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        - jack-get-connections <port>
 
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    - querying port and total latency
 
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        - jack-get-latency <port>
 
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        - jack-get-total-latency <port>
 
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    - querying timebase state
 
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    - and so on...
 
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- new functionality compared to existing command-line JACK tools
 
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    - interactive shell with command completion and command 
 
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      history
 
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    - use via the ecasound control API (interfaces available 
 
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      for C++, C, lisp, perl, php, python)
 
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