Debian Multimedia Project
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Firewire
Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface

This metapackage will install packages to configure your ffado supported firewire audio card.

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A2jmidid
Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems
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Main goal of this project is to ease usage of legacy, not JACK-ified apps, in a JACK MIDI enabled system. a2jmidid is a daemon that implements automatic bridging. For every ALSA sequencer port you get one JACK MIDI port. If ALSA sequencer port is both one input and one output, you get two JACK MIDI ports, one input and one output.

Ffado-dbus-server
FFADO D-Bus server
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FFADO is a Linux driver for FireWire (IEEE1394) audio devices.

The FFADO library permits discovering and configuring such devices and provides an API for streaming clients.

This package holds the D-Bus server that exposes the mixer and control interfaces through D-Bus.

Ffado-mixer-qt4
FFADO D-Bus mixer applets
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FFADO is a Linux driver for FireWire (IEEE1394) audio devices.

The FFADO library permits discovering and configuring such devices and provides an API for streaming clients.

This package holds the mixer and control applications that communicate with ffado-dbus-server.

Despite the package name, the GUI has been updated.

Ffado-tools
FFADO debugging and firmware tools
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FFADO is a Linux driver for FireWire (IEEE1394) audio devices.

The FFADO library permits discovering and configuring such devices and provides an API for streaming clients.

This package holds the following tools for firmware updating, troubleshooting and debugging:

* ffado-test-streaming
* ffado-diag
* ffado-test-isoxmit
* ffado-test-isorecv
* ffado-bridgeco-downloader
* ffado-test
* ffado-fireworks-downloader
* ffado-debug
Gscanbus
scan IEEE1394 (firewire/i.link) bus
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gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, with some AV/C support, especially for controlling Camcorders and VCRs. It is intended as a debugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used to simply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linux.

Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
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JACK is a low-latency sound server, allowing multiple applications to connect to one audio device, and to share audio between themselves.

This dummy package depends on the current default JACK implementation.

Jackd2-firewire
JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO backend)
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JACK is a low-latency sound server, allowing multiple applications to connect to one audio device, and to share audio between themselves.

This package contains the IEEE1394 (FireWire) backend FFADO.

Libavc1394-tools
control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices (utilities)
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libavc1394 is a programming interface for the 1394 Trade Association AV/C (Audio/Video Control) Digital Interface Command Set. It allows you to remote control camcorders and similar devices connected to your computer via an IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire) link.

This package provides the command line tool dvcont that acts as a simple remote control, the tool mkrfc2734 that is needed to advertise IP over IEEE 1394 (RFC 2734) capabilities with the Linux 2.4 kernel series, and the utility panelctl, a remote control for set-top boxes.

Patchage
modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi
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Patchage provides a graphical interface to connect jack and midi inputs and outputs. Each application is represented as one box with inputs on the left and output on the right. Boxes can be moved around and arranged to have a clear display of the current setup.

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Jackd1-firewire
JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO backend)
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JACK is a low-latency sound server, allowing multiple applications to connect to one audio device, and to share audio between themselves.

This package contains the IEEE1394 (FireWire) backend (FFADO).

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