From 2d87bd2d2f088220ccf98af93073cfd807dc2d1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:52:35 +0000 Subject: documentation update git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/pulseaudio/trunk@225 fefdeb5f-60dc-0310-8127-8f9354f1896f --- doc/README.html.in | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/README.html.in') diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 837cb012..0a33d6f0 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

News

+
Mon Sep 20 2004:

Version 0.5 released; +changes include: extensive API improvements, new module +module-combine for combining multiple sound cards into one, +gcc 2.95 compatibility, configuration files, add "lazy" samples, +support for source and network latency measurements, add +module-pipe-source, many other fixes and improvements.

+
Wed Sep 8 2004:

Version 0.4 released; changes include: daemon auto spawning, support for SCHED_FIFO scheduling, three new modules, proper logging, CPU load watchdog, many fixes.

@@ -79,6 +87,8 @@ Daemon (ESOUND). In addition to the features ESOUND provides
  • Flexible, implicit sample type conversion and resampling
  • "Zero-Copy" architecture
  • Module autoloading
    • +
  • Very accurate latency measurement for playback and recordin.
    • +
  • May be used to combine multiple sound cards to one (with sample rate adjustment)

    • Both the core and the client API are completely asynchronous making @@ -89,15 +99,35 @@ available through polyplib is quite difficult to use there is a simplified synchronous API wrapper polyplib-simple available. A simple main loop implementation is available as well.

    +

    The following modules are currently available:

    + + +

    polypaudio is the successor of my previous, ill-fated -attempt to write a sound server asd.

    A GTK GUI manager application for polypaudio is the Polypaudio -Manager. Another GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio is the Polypaudio Volume Meter. There are output plugins for . Another GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio is the Polypaudio Volume +Meter. There are output plugins for XMMS and libao.

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

    Status

    @@ -116,9 +146,9 @@ href="daemon.html">daemon.html, FAQ.htmlFirst Steps -

    Simply start the polypaudio daemon with the argument -C

    +

    Simply start the polypaudio daemon with the argument -nC

    -
    polypaudio -C
    +
    polypaudio -nC

    This will present you a screen like this:

    @@ -130,10 +160,12 @@ href="cli.html">cli.html    . Another way to start polypaudio is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the command line :

    -
    polypaudio -F polypaudio.pa
    +
    polypaudio -nF polypaudio.pa

    This will load some drivers and protocols automatically.

    +

    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.

    +

    Developing polypaudio Clients

    You may browse the Doxygen generated for the client API. (Run make doxygen to generate thi

  • Protocol support beyond ESOUND's protocol and the native protocol. (such as NAS or a subset of aRts)
  • New programming interfaces such as XMLRPC or DBUS for controlling the daemon.
  • Hooking audio event sources directly into polypaudio (similar to module-x11-bell)
    • -
  • For low latency applications such as VOIP: load the VOIP core directly into polypaudio and have a slim GUI frontend to control it.
    • +
  • For low latency applications such as VOIP: load the VOIP core directly into polypaudio and have a slim GUI frontend to control it.

    • There is currently no documentation how to write loadable modules -- cgit