[LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, The first official release of zita-ajbridge is now available at . Quoting the README: This package provides two applications, zita-a2j and zita-j2a. They allow to use an ALSA device as a Jack client, to provide additional capture

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Stéphane Letz
> -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:22:28 + > From: Fons Adriaensen > Subject: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge > To: Linux Audio Users ,Linux > Audio Developers >

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:19:25PM +0100, Stéphane Letz wrote: > I'm wondering how your code could replace the "adapter" mechanism that I did > in JACK2 for that never worked fully reliably. Basically the "adapter" idea > is a bit more general in the sense that it aims at "adapting" streams in

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Stéphane Letz
Le 19 mars 2012 à 15:20, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:19:25PM +0100, Stéphane Letz wrote: > >> I'm wondering how your code could replace the "adapter" mechanism that I did >> in JACK2 for that never worked fully reliably. Basically the "adapter" idea >> is a bit more

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > What would be an interesting addition to Jack would be the possibility > to reduce the timing uncertainty for certain clients. At the moment > a client can run anywhere between the start of a cycle and the start > of the next one - no ass

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Robin Gareus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/2012 10:22 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Hello all, > > The first official release of zita-ajbridge is now available at > . > > Quoting the README: > > This package provides two applica

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 06:58:29PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > # mplayer -ao alsa,device=hw=1,0 some_music.wav > # zita-a2j -dhw:1,1 > > I get endless messages: > Starting synchronisation. > Detected excessive timing errors, waiting 15 seconds. > This may happen with current Jack1 after free

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/19/2012 08:51 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [..] > There was a bug in the loopback device - it returned the wrong > type of event when using poll() in some cases. It's fixed in > 1.0.24. That would certainly explain what you see. right. I'm still using snd-aloop from alsa-driver 1.0.23. I will

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:51:43PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > There was a bug in the loopback device - it returned the wrong > type of event when using poll() in some cases. It's fixed in > 1.0.24. That would certainly explain what you see. Sorry for the confusion, but this is wrong. That

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:01:41PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > It's because zita-alsa-pcmi.cc first tries float and only uses > SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE as a fallback. I found a solution for this: use > dmix/dsnoop devices for the playback clients but connect zita-?2? > directly to the hw:Loopback,

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/19/2012 09:05 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:51:43PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> There was a bug in the loopback device - it returned the wrong >> type of event when using poll() in some cases. It's fixed in >> 1.0.24. That would certainly explain what you se

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-19 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/19/2012 09:10 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:01:41PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > >> It's because zita-alsa-pcmi.cc first tries float and only uses >> SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE as a fallback. > > Aha. So maybe I should add a 'force-16-bit' option in > zita-alsa-pcmi..

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 19/03/12 20:51, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [...] (meanwhile I'm back home, the loopback device is hw:3 here) [terminal 1] fons@zita1:/audio/audiofiles/tracks> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=3.1 diana-krall-almost-blue-44.wav [...] [terminal 2] fons@zita1:~> zita-a2j -d hw:3,0 -r 44100 Starting

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/20/2012 10:08 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 19/03/12 20:51, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > [...] >> (meanwhile I'm back home, the loopback device is hw:3 here) >> >> [terminal 1] >> >> fons@zita1:/audio/audiofiles/tracks> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=3.1 >> diana-krall-almost-blue-44.wav > [...] >>

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread michael noble
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Robin Gareus wrote: > > > @list-lurkers: we've tracked down the sync/silence problem that I am > (was) experiencing. zita-a2j/j2a work just fine with all JACK period > sizes < 1024 (that is 16,..,512); Fons is looking into a fix for that. > > Yet another great zit

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:06:20PM +0900, michael noble wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Robin Gareus wrote: > > > > > > > @list-lurkers: we've tracked down the sync/silence problem that I am > > (was) experiencing. zita-a2j/j2a work just fine with all JACK period > > sizes < 1024 (that

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread michael noble
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > There is still a bug that makes the loop filter unstable if Jack's > period size is 1024 or more. It's already fixed and being tested > here, and you can expect and update soon, but meanwhile you should > have Jack's -p < 1024. > > Runnin

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-20 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/20/2012 01:33 PM, michael noble wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> >> There is still a bug that makes the loop filter unstable if Jack's >> period size is 1024 or more. It's already fixed and being tested >> here, and you can expect and update soon, but mea

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-21 Thread James Warden
. From: Fons Adriaensen To: Linux Audio Users ; Linux Audio Developers Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:22 PM Subject: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge Hello all, The first official release of zita-ajbridge is now available at <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.

Re: [LAD] First release of zita-ajbridge

2012-03-21 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/21/2012 12:54 PM, James Warden wrote: > > > Hi Fons, > > I gave it a shot yesterday evening. It was not meant to be a thorough > test but just a check whether I could just replace alsa_in/out with > zita_a2j/j2a in my environment: > > - Core 2 Duo 2 x 2.4GHz (cpufreq disabled) > > - kern