1ALSA_IO(1) General Commands Manual ALSA_IO(1)
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6 alsa_in, alsa_out - Jack clients that perform I/O with an alternate au‐
7 dio interface
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10 alsa_in [options]
11 alsa_out [options]
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15 A JACK client that opens a specified audio interface (different to the
16 one used by the JACK server, if any) and moves audio data between its
17 JACK ports and the interface. alsa_in will provide data from the inter‐
18 face (potentially for capture); alsa_out will deliver data to it (for
19 playback).
20 The audio interface used by alsa_in/alsa_out does not need to be syn‐
22 chronized with JACK backend (or the hardware it might be using).
23 alsa_in/alsa_out tries to resample the output stream in an attempt to
24 compensate for drift between the two clocks.
25 As of jack-0.116.3 this works almost perfectly. It takes some time, to
27 reach absolute resample-rate stability. So give it some minutes (its
28 intended to be running permanently anyways)
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32 -j jack_client_name
33 Set Client Name.
34 -d alsa_device
36 Use this Soundcard.
37 -v
39 Verbose, prints out resample coefficient and other parameters
40 useful for debugging, every 500ms. also reports soft xruns.
41 -i
43 Instrumentation. This logs the 4 important parameters of the
44 samplerate control algorithm every 1ms. You can pipe this into
45 a file, and plot it. Should only be necessary, if it does not
46 work as expected, and we need to adjust some of the obscure pa‐
47 rameters, to make it work. Find me on irc.freenode.org #jack in
48 order to set this up correctly.
49 -c channels
51 Set Number of channels.
52 -r sample_rate
54 Set sample_rate. The program resamples as necessary. So you can
55 connect a 44100 jackd to a soundcard only supporting 48000. (de‐
56 fault is jack sample_rate)
57 -p period_size
59 Set the period size. It is not related to the jackd period_size.
60 Sometimes it affects the quality of the delay measurements.
61 Setting this lower than the jackd period_size will only work, if
62 you use a higher number of periods.
63 -n num_period
65 Set number of periods. See note for period_size.
66 -q quality
68 Set the quality of the resampler from 0 to 4. can significanly
69 reduce cpu usage.
70 -m max_diff
72 The value when a soft xrun occurs. Basically the window, in
73 which the dma pointer may jitter. I don't think its necessary to
74 play with this anymore.
75 -t target_delay
77 The delay alsa_io should try to approach. Same as for max_diff.
78 It will be setup based on -p and -n which is generally suffi‐
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80 -s smooth_array_size
82 This parameter controls the size of the array used for smoothing
83 the delay measurement. Its default is 256. If you use a pretty
84 low period size, you can lower the CPU usage a bit by decreasing
85 this parameter. However most CPU time is spent in the resam‐
86 pling so this will not be much.
87 -C P Control Clamp
89 If you have a PCI card, then the default value (15) of this pa‐
90 rameter is too high for -p64 -n2... Setting it to 5 should fix
91 that. Be aware that setting this parameter too low, lets the hf
92 noise on the delay measurement come through onto the resampler‐
93 ate, so this might degrade the quality of the output. (but its a
94 threshold value, and it has been chosen, to mask the noise of a
95 USB card, which has an amplitude which is 50 times higher than
96 that of a PCI card, so 5 won't lose you any quality on a PCI
97 card)
98 -S server_name
100 Server to connect to. This option permits to attach to a named
101 jack2 server.
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105 Torben Hohn
1061.9.19 July 2021 ALSA_IO(1)