ecasound for Debian
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 The author's page is at http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/

 LADSPA support is included. Plug-ins should be found in /usr/lib/ladspa

 ecasound prepackaged version for Debian supports ALSA 0.9 series and later,
 and not ALSA 0.5 (which is ancient).

 aRts support is disabled since 2.4.0, since it's not well-maintained 
 and has a work-around. You can use artsdsp program instead of native
 aRts support.


Historical explanation of ecasound2.2 package name for Debian
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 ecasound2.2 release was a major change from 2.0 series; 
and that was the reason for ecasound2.2 package name; we had two
versions to coexist.

For transition purposes Debian source package name still retains 
the ecasound2.2 name.


A simple testing of function for ecasound
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I tend to do this to test jackd functionality:

jackd  -d alsa -d via -s & ecasound -f s16_le,2,48000 -i XXX.ogg -o jack_alsa
jackd  -d alsa -d card0 -s & ecasound -i resample,auto,XXX.ogg -o jack_alsa

 -- Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>, Tue Jul 12 23:05:02 2005
