JACK Audio Connection Kit

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JACK Audio Connection Kit
Latest release 0.109.2 / 30 January 2008
OS Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X
Genre Sound server
License GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
Website http://jackaudio.org/

The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications, for both audio and MIDI data. It is created by Paul Davis and others. The server is licensed under the GNU GPL, while the library is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

JACK can use ALSA, PortAudio, CoreAudio, FreeBoB, FFADO and (still experimental) OSS as its back-end. As of 2008 it runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. There is also a version 2 in the works, JACKDMP, which supports Windows.

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[edit] Applications

Some software that works with JACK:

As of 2007, there are many applications with JACK support; every well known video player supports JACK as audio output, and nearly every audio playing application for Linux supports JACK output.

[edit] Libraries

  • Allegro - a game programming library
  • bio2jack - a library that allows for simple porting of blocked I/O (bio) OSS/ALSA audio applications to JACK
  • libjackasyn - a library that converts programs written for the OSS system into JACK-aware applications

[edit] See also

Free software Portal

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