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| -rw-r--r-- | man/alsa_in.0 (renamed from man/alsa_in.1) | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/alsa_out.0 (renamed from man/alsa_out.1) | 0 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/alsa_in.1 b/man/alsa_in.0 index d28d2b3..c7abbbc 100644 --- a/man/alsa_in.1 +++ b/man/alsa_in.0 @@ -1,17 +1,22 @@ -.TH ALSA_IO "1" "December 2008" "0.116.0" +.TH ALSA_IO "1" "!DATE!" "!VERSION!" .SH NAME -\fBalsa_in\fR, \fBalsa_out\fR \- Jack Clients, that bind to an unsynchronised Soundcard. +\fBalsa_in\fR, \fBalsa_out\fR \- Jack clients that perform I/O with an alternate audio interface .SH SYNOPSYS \fBalsa_in\fR [\fIoptions\fR] .br \fBalsa_out\fR [\fIoptions\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION -A Jack Client, that opens a specified soundcard, and plays the audio -data from its input Port to the Soundcard. This Soundcard does not -need to be synchronized with the jackd Clocksource. +A JACK client that opens a specified audio interface (different to the +one used by the JACK server, if any) and moves audio data between its +JACK ports and the interface. alsa_in will provide data from the +interface (potentially for capture); alsa_out will deliver data to it +(for playback). -alsa_in/alsa_out tries to resample the output stream, to reduce clicks. +The audio interface used by alsa_in/alsa_out does not need to be +synchronized with JACK backend (or the hardware it might be using). +alsa_in/alsa_out tries to resample the output stream in an attempt to +compensate for drift between the two clocks. .SH OPTIONS .TP @@ -65,6 +70,4 @@ Set number of periods. See note for period_size. .SH AUTHOR Torben Hohn -.PP -This manpage was written by Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> diff --git a/man/alsa_out.1 b/man/alsa_out.0 index d9de8dd..d9de8dd 100644 --- a/man/alsa_out.1 +++ b/man/alsa_out.0 |