From c82105d901682fdbecd409930fdf6d747d37809c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:43:36 +0000 Subject: prepare next release 0.6 git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/pulseaudio/trunk@264 fefdeb5f-60dc-0310-8127-8f9354f1896f --- doc/README.html.in | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- doc/daemon.html.in | 4 ++++ doc/modules.html.in | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index a0b3e641..22a30dc2 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -44,6 +44,18 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

News

Thu Oct 28 2004:

Version 0.6 released; +changes include: TCP wrappers support; don't load the complete sound +file into memory when playing back using pa_play_file(); +autoload API change; don't load all sound files as FLOAT32; shorten +default buffers; client-side latency interpolation; add new user +volume metrics; add module-tunnel, module-null-sink, +module-match and new tool paplay; new API version +macros; many client API improvements; correctly lock cookie file +generation; correctly lock daemon autospawning; print daemon layout to +STDERR on SIGHUP; new options for pacat: allow sample type specification.

Mon Sep 24 2004:

Version 0.5.1 released; changes include: improve esound protocol compatibility; fix @@ -96,6 +108,7 @@ Daemon (ESOUND). In addition to the features ESOUND provides

Module autoloading

Very accurate latency measurement for playback and recordin.

May be used to combine multiple sound cards to one (with sample rate adjustment)

Client side latency interpolation

Both the core and the client API are completely asynchronous making @@ -120,7 +133,10 @@ available. A simple main loop implementation is available as well.

module-native-protocol-tcp, module-native-protocol-unix: Native polypaudio protocol (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)

module-simple-protocol-tcp, module-simple-protocol-unix: Simplistic protocol for playback/capture for usage with tools like netcat (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)

module-cli-protocol-tcp, module-cli-protocol-unix, module-cli: Expose polypaudio's internals whith a simple command line interface. (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets resp. STDIN/STDOUT)

- +

module-tunnel-sink, module-tunnel-source: make sinks/sources from other hosts available locally.

module-match: adjust volume automatically for newly created playback streams based on a regular expression matching table.

module-null-sink: a clocked sink similar to /dev/null.

polypaudio is the successor of my previous, ill-fated attempt to write a sound server, Polypaudio Manager. Another GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio is the Polypaudio Volume Meter. There are output plugins for XMMS and libao. Drivers -for gstreamer and MPlayer will be released shortly.

+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/xmms-polyp/">XMMS, libao and gstreamer. Drivers +for MPlayer and PortAudio will be released shortly.

Status

@@ -173,6 +188,10 @@ command line :

The best idea is to configure your daemon in /etc/polypaudio/daemon.conf and /etc/polypaudio/default.pa and to run polypaudio without any arguments.

Beware! Unless you pass the option --sysconfdir=/etc to +configure, the directory /etc/polypaudio/ is really +/usr/local/etc/polypaudio/.

Developing polypaudio Clients

You may browse the Doxygen generated -

polypaudio needs polypaudio needs libwrap, Secret Rabbit Code (aka -libsamplerate), libsndfile, alsa-lib and GLIB. (The latter is required for building the GLIB main loop integration module only.)

+libsamplerate), libsndfile, alsa-lib and GLIB. (The latter is required for +building the GLIB main loop integration module only.)

Installation

@@ -229,7 +251,7 @@ compilation and make install (as root) for installation of

The current release is @PACKAGE_VERSION@

Get polypaudio's development sources from the Subversion repository (viewcvs):

svn checkout svn://seth.intheinter.net/polypaudio/trunk polypaudio

@@ -237,8 +259,10 @@ compilation and make install (as root) for installation of

New! There is a general discussion mailing list for polypaudio available.

New! There is now a Polypaudio wiki (based on trac) available.

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, September 2004

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, October 2004

$Id$

diff --git a/doc/daemon.html.in b/doc/daemon.html.in index 147ee551..8d2414c0 100644 --- a/doc/daemon.html.in +++ b/doc/daemon.html.in @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ The polypaudio daemon accepts several command line arguments:

The daemon tries to load the module module-cli-protocol-unix, effectively providing a command line interface on a special UNIX domain socket.

SIGHUP

+ +

The daemon logs the current server layout.

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, September 2004

$Id$

diff --git a/doc/modules.html.in b/doc/modules.html.in index 4bf6044b..5e9b8873 100644 --- a/doc/modules.html.in +++ b/doc/modules.html.in @@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ special file in the file system. The source name defaults to pipe_input file=The name of the FIFO special file to use. (defaults to: /tmp/music.input) + +

module-null-sink

+ +

Provides a simple null sink. All data written to this sink is silently dropped. This sink is clocked using the system time.

+ +

This module doesn't support any special parameters

module-alsa-sink

@@ -116,6 +123,21 @@ be to slow on your machine try using zero-order-hold. This will decrease output quality however. (defaults to sinc-fastest) +

module-tunnel-{sink,source}

+ +

Tunnel a remote sink/source to a local "ghost" +sink/source. Requires a running polypaudio daemon on the remote server +with module-native-protocol-tcp loaded. It's probably a +better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly since some +buffer control is lost through this tunneling.

+ + + + + + +

`server=`	The server to connect to
`source=`	The source on the remote server. Only available for `module-tunnel-source`.
`sink=`	The sink on the remote server. Only available for `module-tunnel-sink`.
`cookie=`	The authentication cookie file to use.

Protocols

@@ -251,6 +273,22 @@ about the two possible suffixes of this module.

This is a compatibility module for libesd based autospawning of polypaudio. Don't use it directly.

module-match

+ +

Adjust the volume of a playback stream automatically based on its name.

+ + + +

table= The regular expression matching table file to use

+ +

The table file should contain a regexp and volume on each line, seperated by spaces. An example:

+ +

+^sample: 25
+

+ +

The volumes of all streams with titles starting with sample: are automatically set to 25. (FYI: All sample cache streams start with sample:)

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, September 2004

$Id$

-- cgit