>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:38:38 -0500 >From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Rick Green <rtg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'll be soing a field recording next week for a DVD music production. Is >> it possible to record an SMPTE timecode on a spare track? I've found some >> references on the web to something called LTC, which apparently is SMPTE >> encoded thru an audio codec. >> Is there any support in Ardour that would use this information to make >> post-production easier? > >Ardour understands only timecode as MTC (MIDI Timecode) : same data, >different format. > >There are a couple of small tools around that will accept LTC and >function as the JACK time master. >Someone else and/or google will have to come up with the names. i was looking for something along these lines a few years ago. here's a discussion which, i think, represents the current state-of-the-art (it's not much!): http://old.nabble.com/Utility-to-read-SMPTE-LTC-"audio"-time-code-td22937033.html ltcsmpte is here: http://ltcsmpte.sourceforge.net/ if you look at the svn repository, you'll see jltc, which is an example jack app to read LTC and display SMPTE (and, i think, control JACK transport). i haven't recently needed any such thing, so i'm not sure what the current usability of this tool is. it's likely that there's "some assembly required"! i don't know of anything else under linux for this sort of thing. cheers! -- .pltk. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
