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+<title>polypaudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</title>
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+<h1><a name="top">polypaudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
+
+<p><i>Copyright 2002-2004 Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;</i></p>
+
+<ul class="toc">
+ <li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#installation">Installation</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#acks">Acknowledgements</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#download">Download</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2><a name="license">License</a></h2>
+
+<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
+
+<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.</p>
+
+<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
+
+
+<div class="news-date">Sat Jul 17 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p>
+
+<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
+
+<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like
+operating systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in
+replacement for the <a
+href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/apps.html">Enlightened Sound
+Daemon</a> (ESOUND). In addition to the features ESOUND provides
+<tt>polypaudio</tt> has:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Extensible plugin architecture (<tt>dlopen()</tt>)</li>
+ <li>Support for more than one sink/source</li>
+ <li>Better low latency behaviour</li>
+ <li>Embedabble into other software (the core is available as C library)</li>
+ <li>Completely asynchronous C API</li>
+ <li>Simple command line interface for reconfiguring the daemon while running</li>
+ <li>Flexible, implicit sample type conversion and resampling</li>
+ <li>"Zero-Copy" architecture</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Both the core and the client API are completely asynchronous making
+use of a simple main loop abstraction layer. This allows easy
+integration with asynchronous applications using the
+<tt>glib</tt>/<tt>gtk</tt> mainloop. Since the asynchronous API
+available through <tt>polyplib</tt> is quite difficult to use there is
+a simplified synchronous API wrapper <tt>polyplib-simple</tt>
+available.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="status">Status</a></h2>
+
+<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. <tt>polypaudio</tt> does
+not yet match all ESOUND features: currently a sample cache and
+automatic releasing of unused sound drivers are missing. Have a look on the more extensive <a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/src/todo?view=markup">TODO list</a>.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
+
+<p>There is some prelimenary documentation available: <a
+href="modules.html"><tt>modules.html</tt></a>, <a
+href="cli.html"><tt>cli.html</tt></a>, <a
+href="daemon.html"><tt>daemeon.html</tt></a>.</p>
+
+<p>Documentation for developing with <tt>polypaudio</tt> is not yet
+available. Read the source, Luke!</p>
+
+<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
+
+<p>Currently, <tt>polypaudio</tt> is tested on Linux only. It requires an OSS or ALSA compatible soundcard.</p>
+
+<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux
+"testing" from July 2004, it should work on most other Linux
+distributions (and maybe Unix versions) since it uses GNU autoconf and
+GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library
+management.</p>
+
+<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> needs <a
+href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">Secret Rabbit Code (aka <tt>libsamplerate</tt>)</a> and <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">alsa-lib</a>.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2>
+
+<p>As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run
+<tt>./configure</tt> inside the distribution directory for configuring
+the source tree. After that you should run <tt>make</tt> for
+compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of
+<tt>polypaudio</tt>.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="acks">Acknowledgements</a></h2>
+
+<p>Eric B. Mitchell for writing ESOUND</p>
+
+<h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2>
+
+<p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p>
+
+<p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p>
+
+<p>Get <tt>polypaudio</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/polypaudio/">repository</a>. (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=polypaudio">viewcvs</a>)</p>
+
+<p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/polypaudio/">Freshmeat</a>.</p>
+
+<hr/>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;, July 2004</address>
+<div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div>
+
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