[Ardour-Users] status OS X - ardour - qjadeo

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:10 +0200, Luigi Rensinghoff wrote:
> Hi List....
> 
> I have a question...about ardour and video..
> 
> It doesnt work on my macbook, but i thought, maybe it is not supposed  
> to work.
> 
> So i am on a Macbook an i am trying to view a video file with qjadeo  
> and have ardour synced to it to play the soundtrack.
> 
> I start jack with qjackctl and would like qjadeo and ardour to be  
> synced by the jacktransport.
> 
> Is that th right approach ??

yes.

> 
> I am getting a varispeed error message in ardout (global varispeed is  
> not supported when usin jack transport)..something like that.

JACK transport does not support varispeed - we did not want to make it a
requirement for every client to do this (its very hard) - so if ardour
is the JACK time master, you cannot do varispeed stuff (ffwd, rewind,
etc). you can locate (jump) and play normally.