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+<?xml version="1.0"?><!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE manpage SYSTEM "xmltoman.dtd">
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xmltoman.xsl" ?>
+
+<!-- $Id$ -->
+
+<!--
+This file is part of PulseAudio.
+
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+USA.
+-->
+
+<manpage name="paplay" section="1" desc="Play back audio files on a PulseAudio sound server">
+
+ <synopsis>
+ <cmd>paplay [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>FILE</arg></cmd>
+ <cmd>paplay <opt>--help</opt></cmd>
+ <cmd>paplay <opt>--version</opt></cmd>
+ </synopsis>
+
+ <description>
+ <p><file>paplay</file> is a simple tool for playing back audio
+ files on a PulseAudio sound server. It understands all audio file
+ formats supported by <file>libsndfile</file>.</p>
+ </description>
+
+ <options>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Show help.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>--version</opt></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Show version information.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>-v | --verbose</opt></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Enable verbose operation. Dumps the current playback time to STDERR during playback.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>-s | --server</opt><arg>=SERVER</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Choose the server to connect to.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>-d | --device</opt><arg>=SINK</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the symbolic name of the sink to play this file on.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>-n | --client-name</opt><arg>=NAME</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the client name <file>paplay</file> shall pass to the server when connecting.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>--stream-name</opt><arg>=NAME</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the stream name <file>paplay</file> shall pass to the server when creating the stream.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>--volume</opt><arg>=VOLUME</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the initial playback volume to use. Choose a value between 0 (silent) and 65536 (100% volume).</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>--channel-map</opt><arg>=CHANNELMAP</arg></p>
+
+ <optdesc><p>Explicitly choose a channel map when playing back
+ this stream. The argument should be a comma separated list of
+ channel names: <arg>front-left</arg>, <arg>front-right</arg>,
+ <arg>mono</arg>, <arg>front-center</arg>, <arg>rear-left</arg>,
+ <arg>rear-right</arg>, <arg>rear-center</arg>, <arg>lfe</arg>,
+ <arg>front-left-of-center</arg>,
+ <arg>front-right-of-center</arg>, <arg>side-left</arg>,
+ <arg>side-right</arg>, <arg>top-center</arg>,
+ <arg>top-front-center</arg>, <arg>top-front-left</arg>,
+ <arg>top-front-right</arg>, <arg>top-rear-left</arg>,
+ <arg>top-rear-right</arg>, <arg>top-rear-center</arg>, or any of
+ the 32 auxiliary channel names <arg>aux0</arg> to
+ <arg>aux31</arg>.</p></optdesc>
+ </option>
+
+ </options>
+
+ <section name="Limitations">
+
+ <p>Due to a limitation in <file>libsndfile</file>
+ <file>paplay</file> currently does not always set the correct channel
+ mapping for playback of multichannel (i.e. surround) audio files, even if the channel mapping information is
+ available in the audio file.</p>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section name="Authors">
+ <p>The PulseAudio Developers &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;; PulseAudio is available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section name="See also">
+ <p>
+ <manref name="pulseaudio" section="1"/>, <manref name="pacat" section="1"/>
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+</manpage>