gjacktransport is a standalone application that provides access to the jack audio connection kit‘s, JACK transport mechanism via a dynamic graphical slider.

in other words: this software allows to seek Audio/Video media files when they are played along jack transport. Intended for audio-engineers or A/V editors that work with arodour, ecasound, hydrogen and/or xjadeo,..

• Sourceforged TGZ
• SVN Browse

prerequisites:

• gnome-development environment (glade-2)
• libjack-dev , jackit-dev
• liblash-dev (optional)

compile the tar-ball:

tar xzf .../gjacktransport-?.?.?.tgz 
cd gjacktransport-*
./configure && make
sudo make install

to get and compile from SVN:

svn co https://gjacktransport.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gjacktransport/trunk gjacktransport
cd gjacktransport
#svn update 
./autogen.sh && make
sudo make install

resort to the Sourceforge Forum for feeback.

• [dynamic|bidir|touchable] slider to control jack-transport
• jack connect/disconnect
• set slider start and end points in various units
• local-memory: remember start/end points
• auto-zoom and reposition slider
• LASH support
• Configurable keybindings to control transport state.

• dynamic create/name memory-presets.
• .rc for non LASH users.
• documentation, remaining FIXME‘s and TODO in the source
• SMPTE / static video-fps (get fps info from jack time master)

see also:

• text only jack transport (jack.transport)
• http://ardour.org JACK’s digital audio workstation
• xjadeo jack transport aware video player
• ecasound - command line audio toolkit that supports jack transport
• gjacktransport - Souceforge Project Site