[polypaudio-commits] r1040 - in /trunk/doc: FAQ.html.in README.html.in cli.html.in daemon.html.in modules.html.in
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Author: lennart
Date: Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
New Revision: 1040
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&view=rev
Log:
update docs
Modified:
trunk/doc/FAQ.html.in
trunk/doc/README.html.in
trunk/doc/cli.html.in
trunk/doc/daemon.html.in
trunk/doc/modules.html.in
Modified: trunk/doc/FAQ.html.in
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/FAQ.html.in?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&r1=1039&r2=1040&view=diff
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--- trunk/doc/FAQ.html.in (original)
+++ trunk/doc/FAQ.html.in Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
-<title>pulseaudio: FAQ</title>
+<title>PulseAudio: FAQ</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
@@ -12,39 +12,39 @@
<h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
<ol>
- <li><p><b>How does Polypaudio compare with ESOUND/aRts/NAS?</b></p>
-
- <p>Polypaudio is sound daemon similar to ESOUND and NAS, but much more
+ <li><p><b>How does PulseAudio compare with ESOUND/aRts/NAS?</b></p>
+
+ <p>PulseAudio is sound daemon similar to ESOUND and NAS, but much more
powerful. aRts is a realtime-synthesizer-cum-sound-server, i.e. it
- does much more than Polypaudio. However, I believe that Polypaudio
+ does much more than PulseAudio. However, I believe that PulseAudio
does what it does much better than any other free sound server.</p>
</li>
<li><p><b>What about ESOUND compatibility?</b></p>
- <p>Polypaudio is a drop in replacement for ESOUND. That means: you can
+ <p>PulseAudio is a drop in replacement for ESOUND. That means: you can
load a esound compatibility module which implements an ESOUND
compatible protocol which allows you to use most of the classic ESOUND
compatible programs (including the command line programs like
<tt>esdcat</tt>).</p>
</li>
- <li><p><b>Is Polypaudio a GNOME program?</b></p>
- <p>No, Polypaudio has no dependency on GNOME/GTK/GLIB. All it requires
+ <li><p><b>Is PulseAudio a GNOME program?</b></p>
+ <p>No, PulseAudio has no dependency on GNOME/GTK/GLIB. All it requires
is a UNIX-like operating system and very few dependency
- libraries. However, the accompanying GUI tools are writen with
+ libraries. However, the accompanying GUI tools are written with
gtkmm, i.e. require both GLIB and GTK.</p></li>
- <li><p><b>Can I integrate Polypaudio in my GLIB/GTK/GNOME application?</b></p>
- <p>Yes! Polypaudio comes with a GLIB main loop adapter. You can embed
+ <li><p><b>Can I integrate PulseAudio in my GLIB/GTK/GNOME application?</b></p>
+ <p>Yes! PulseAudio comes with a GLIB main loop adapter. You can embed
both the client library and the daemon (!) into your GLIB based
application.</p></li>
- <li><p><b>Can I integrate Polypaudio in my Qt/KDE application?</b></p>
- <p>Yes! Polypaudio uses a main loop abstraction layer that allows you
- to integrate Polypaudio in any program that supports main
+ <li><p><b>Can I integrate PulseAudio in my Qt/KDE application?</b></p>
+ <p>Yes! PulseAudio uses a main loop abstraction layer that allows you
+ to integrate PulseAudio in any program that supports main
loops. Unfortunately there is no adapter for Qt publicly available yet.</p></li>
- <li><p><b>I want to write a new driver for Polypaudio, are there any docs?</b></p>
+ <li><p><b>I want to write a new driver for PulseAudio, are there any docs?</b></p>
<p>Currently, only the client API is documented with doxygen. Read
the source and base your work on a simple module like
<tt>module-pipe-sink</tt>.</p></li>
@@ -54,67 +54,67 @@
<li><p><b>What about compatibility with aRts?</b></p>
<p>Is not available. Since aRts is as synthesizer application you'd have to
- reimplement very much code for Polypaudio. It should be easy to
+ reimplement very much code for PulseAudio. It should be easy to
implement limited support for <tt>libartsc</tt> based
applications. Noone has done this yet. It is probably a better idea to
- run <tt>arts</tt> on top of Polypaudio (through a pulseaudio driver
+ run <tt>arts</tt> on top of PulseAudio (through a PulseAudio driver
for aRts, which nobody has written yet). Another solution would be to
- embed Polypaudio in the aRts process.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>I often hear noises when playing back with Polypaudio, what can I do?</b></p>
- <p>There are to possible solutions: run pulseaudio with argument
+ embed PulseAudio in the aRts process.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><b>I often hear noises when playing back with PulseAudio, what can I do?</b></p>
+ <p>There are to possible solutions: run PulseAudio with argument
<tt>--high-priority=1</tt> and make yourself member of the group
<tt>realtime</tt>, or increase the fragment sizes of the audio
- drivers. The former will allow Polypaudio to activate
+ drivers. The former will allow PulseAudio to activate
<tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> high priority scheduling (root rights are dropped
immediately after this). Keep in mind that this is a potential security hole!</p></li>
<li><p><b>The <tt>pulseaudio</tt> executable is installed SUID root by default. Why this? Isn't this a potential security hole?</b></p>
- <p>Polypaudio activates <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling if the user
+ <p>PulseAudio activates <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling if the user
passes <tt>--high-priority=1</tt>. This will only succeed when
executed as root, therefore the binary is marked SUID root by
-default. Yes, this is a potential security hole. However, pulseaudio
+default. Yes, this is a potential security hole. However, PulseAudio
tries its best to minimize the security threat: immediately after
-startup pulseaudio drops all capabilities except
+startup PulseAudio drops all capabilities except
<tt>CAP_SYS_NICE</tt> (At least on systems that support it, like Linux; see <tt>man 7
capabilities</tt> for more information). If the calling user is not a
member of the group <tt>realtime</tt> (which is required to have a GID
< 1000), root rights are dropped immediately. This means, you can
-install pulseaudio SUID root, but only a subset of your users (the
+install <tt>pulseaudio</tt> SUID root, but only a subset of your users (the
members of the group <tt>realtime</tt>) may make use of realtime
scheduling. Keep in mind that these users might load their own binary
-modules into the pulseaudio daemon which may freeze the machine. The
+modules into the PulseAudio daemon which may freeze the machine. The
daemon has a minimal protection against CPU hogging (the daemon is
killed after hogging more than 70% CPU for 5 seconds), but this may
be circumvented easily by evildoers.</p></li>
- <li><p><b>I want to run pulseaudio only when it is needed, how do I do this?</b></p>
+ <li><p><b>I want to run PulseAudio only when it is needed, how do I do this?</b></p>
<p>Set <tt>autospawn = yes</tt> in <tt>client.conf</tt>. That
-configuration file may be found either in <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/</tt> or
-in <tt>~/.pulseaudio/</tt>.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>How do I list all pulseaudio modules installed?</b></p>
+configuration file may be found either in <tt>/etc/pulse/</tt> or
+in <tt>~/.pulse/</tt>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><b>How do I list all PulseAudio modules installed?</b></p>
<p><tt>pulseaudio --dump-modules</tt></p>
<p>Add <tt>-v</tt> for terse usage instructions.</p>
-<li><p><b>How do I use pulseaudio over the network?</b></p>
-
-<p>Just set <tt>$POLYP_SERVER</tt> to the host name of the pulseaudio
+<li><p><b>How do I use PulseAudio over the network?</b></p>
+
+<p>Just set <tt>$POLYP_SERVER</tt> to the host name of the PulseAudio
server. For authentication you need the same auth cookies on all sides. For
-that copy <tt>~./pulseaudio-cookie</tt> to all clients that shall
+that copy <tt>~./pulse-cookie</tt> to all clients that shall
be allowed to connect.</p>
<p>Alternatively the authorization cookies can be stored in the X11 server.</p></li>
-<li><p><b>Is pulseaudio capable of providing synchronized audio playback over the network for movie players like <tt>mplayer</tt>?</b></p>
+<li><p><b>Is PulseAudio capable of providing synchronized audio playback over the network for movie players like <tt>mplayer</tt>?</b></p>
<p>Yes! Unless your network is congested in some way (i.e. transfer latencies vary strongly) it works perfectly. Drop me an email for experimental patches for MPlayer.</p>
- <li><p><b>What environment variables does pulseaudio care about?</b></p>
+ <li><p><b>What environment variables does PulseAudio care about?</b></p>
<p>The client honors: <tt>POLYP_SINK</tt> (default sink to connect to), <tt>POLYP_SOURCE</tt> (default source to connect to), <tt>POLYP_SERVER</tt> (default server to connect to, like <tt>ESPEAKER</tt>), <tt>POLYP_BINARY</tt> (the binary to start when autospawning a daemon), <tt>POLYP_CLIENTCONFIG</tt> (path to the client configuration file).</p>
@@ -126,36 +126,36 @@
<p>A brilliant guy named Lennart Poettering once wrote a nifty tool
for that purpose: <a
href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/bidilink/">bidilink</a>. To
-connect to a running pulseaudio daemon try using the following commands:</p>
+connect to a running PulseAudio daemon try using the following commands:</p>
<pre>killall -USR2 pulseaudio
-bidilink unix-client:/tmp/pulseaudio/cli</pre>
+bidilink unix-client:/tmp/pulse-$USER/cli</pre>
<p><i>BTW: Someone should package this great tool for Debian!</i></p>
<p><b>New:</b> There's now a tool <tt>pacmd</tt> that automates sending SIGUSR2 to the daemon and running a bidilink like tool for you.</p>
</li>
-<li><p><b>How do the pulseaudio libraries decide where to connect to?</b></p>
+<li><p><b>How do the PulseAudio libraries decide where to connect to?</b></p>
<p>The following rule applies:</p>
<ol>
<li>If the the application using the library specifies a server to connect to it is used. If the connection fails, the library fails too.</li>
<li>If the environment variable <tt>POLYP_SERVER</tt> is defined the library connects to that server. If the connection fails, the library fails too.</li>
<li>If <tt>$DISPLAY</tt> is set, the library tries to connect to that server and looks for the root window property <tt>POYLP_SERVER</tt> for the host to connect to. If <tt>POLYP_COOKIE</tt> is set it is used as authentication cookie.</li>
- <li>If the client configuration file (<tt>~/.pulseaudio/client.conf</tt> or <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/client.conf</tt>) sets the server address, the library connects to that server. If the connection fails, the library fails too.</li>
- <li>The library tries to connect to the default local UNIX socket for pulseaudio servers. If the connection fails, it proceeds with the next item.</li>
- <li>The library tries to connect to the default local TCP socket for pulseaudio servers. If the connection fails, it proceeds with the next item.</li>
+ <li>If the client configuration file (<tt>~/.pulse/client.conf</tt> or <tt>/etc/pulse/client.conf</tt>) sets the server address, the library connects to that server. If the connection fails, the library fails too.</li>
+ <li>The library tries to connect to the default local UNIX socket for PulseAudio servers. If the connection fails, it proceeds with the next item.</li>
+ <li>The library tries to connect to the default local TCP socket for PulseAudio servers. If the connection fails, it proceeds with the next item.</li>
<li>If <tt>$DISPLAY</tt> is set, the library tries to connect to the default TCP port of that host. If the connection fails, it proceeds with the next item.</li>
<li>The connection fails.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><p><b>Why the heck does libpulse link against libX11?</b></p>
-<p>The Polypaudio client libraries look for some X11 root window
-properties for the credentials of the Polypaudio server to access. You
-may compile Polypaudio without X11 for disabling this feature.</p></li>
-
-<li><p><b>How can I use Polypaudio as an RTP based N:N multicast
+<p>The PulseAudio client libraries look for some X11 root window
+properties for the credentials of the PulseAudio server to access. You
+may compile PulseAudio without X11 for disabling this feature.</p></li>
+
+<li><p><b>How can I use PulseAudio as an RTP based N:N multicast
conferencing solution for the LAN?</b></p> <p>After loading all the
necessary audio drivers for recording and playback, just load the RTP
reciever and sender modules with default parameters:</p>
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
load-module module-rtp-recv
</pre>
-<p>As long as the Polypaudio daemon runs, the microphone data will be
+<p>As long as the PulseAudio daemon runs, the microphone data will be
streamed to the network and the data from other hosts is played back
locally. Please note that this may cause quite a lot of traffic. Hence
consider passing <tt>rate=8000 format=ulaw channels=1</tt> to the
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@
<p>All three protocols are defined in IETF RFCs (RFC3550, RFC3551,
RFC2327, RFC2327). They can be used in both multicast and unicast
-fashions. Polypaudio exclusively uses multicast RTP/SDP/SAP containing audio data.</p>
-
-<p>For more information about using these technologies with Polypaudio have a look on the <a href="modules.html#rtp">respective module's documentation</a>.
-
-<li><p><b>How can I use Polypaudio to stream music from my main PC to my LAN with multiple PCs with speakers?</b></p>
+fashions. PulseAudio exclusively uses multicast RTP/SDP/SAP containing audio data.</p>
+
+<p>For more information about using these technologies with PulseAudio have a look on the <a href="modules.html#rtp">respective module's documentation</a>.
+
+<li><p><b>How can I use PulseAudio to stream music from my main PC to my LAN with multiple PCs with speakers?</b></p>
<p>On the sender side create an RTP sink:</p>
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
<p>BTW: You can have more than one sender machine set up like this. The audio data will be mixed on the client side.</p></li>
-<li><p><b>How can I use Polypaudio to share a single LINE-IN/MIC jack on the entire LAN?</b></p>
+<li><p><b>How can I use PulseAudio to share a single LINE-IN/MIC jack on the entire LAN?</b></p>
<p>On the sender side simply load the RTP sender module:</p>
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
<tt>225.0.0.x</tt> to make sure the audio data never leaves the LAN.</p></li>
-<li><p><b>Can I use Polypaudio to playback music on two sound cards simultaneously?</b></p>
+<li><p><b>Can I use PulseAudio to playback music on two sound cards simultaneously?</b></p>
<p>Yes! Use <a href="modules.html#module-combine"><tt>module-combine</tt></a> for that.</p>
@@ -251,13 +251,13 @@
<p>This will combine the two sinks <tt>output0</tt> and
<tt>output1</tt> into a new sink <tt>combined</tt>. Every sample
-written to the latter will be forwarded to the former two. Polypaudio
+written to the latter will be forwarded to the former two. PulseAudio
will make sure to adjust the sample rate of the slave device in case
it deviates from the master device. You can have more than one slave
sink attached to the combined sink, and hence combine even three and
more sound cards.</p> </li>
-<li><p><b>Can I use Polypaudio to combine two stereo soundcards into a virtual surround sound card?</b></p>
+<li><p><b>Can I use PulseAudio to combine two stereo soundcards into a virtual surround sound card?</b></p>
<p>Yes! You can use use <a href="modules.html#module-combine"><tt>module-combine</tt></a> for that.</p>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
time we manually specify the channel mappings for the sinks to make
sure everything is routed correctly.</p>
-<p>Please keep in mind that Polypaudio will constantly adjust the
+<p>Please keep in mind that PulseAudio will constantly adjust the
sample rate to compensate for the deviating quartzes of the sound
devices. This is not perfect, however. Deviations in a range of
1/44100s (or 1/48000s depending on the sampling frequency) can not be
@@ -281,7 +281,11 @@
</li>
-
+<li><p><b>Why did you rename Polypaudio to PulseAudio?</b></p>
+
+<p>Please read this <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse.html">blog story</a> for an explanation.</p>
+
+</li>
</ol>
Modified: trunk/doc/README.html.in
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/README.html.in?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&r1=1039&r2=1040&view=diff
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--- trunk/doc/README.html.in (original)
+++ trunk/doc/README.html.in Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
-<title>pulseaudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</title>
+<title>PulseAudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
-<h1><a name="top">pulseaudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="top">PulseAudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
<p><i>Copyright 2004-2006 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i> and Pierre Ossman</p>
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
<div class="news-date">Fri Jun 2 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.9.1.tar.gz">Version 0.9.1</a>
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.9.1.tar.gz">Version 0.9.1</a>
released; changes include: load modules even when libtool <tt>.la</tt>
files are missing; generate better ALSA device names from
<tt>module-detect</tt>; if an ALSA device doesn't support the
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
<tt>esdcompat.sh</tt>; build system fixes; No API or ABI changes were made</p>
<div class="news-date">Fri May 26 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.9.0.tar.gz">Version 0.9.0</a>
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.9.0.tar.gz">Version 0.9.0</a>
released; changes include: new module <tt>module-volume-restore</tt>;
new OSS API emulation tool <tt>padsp</tt>; require valid UTF8 strings
everywhere; properly support ALSA channel maps for surround sound;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
versioning; a few API additions; many, many bugfixes</p>
<div class="news-date">Fri Apr 28 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.8.1.tar.gz">Version 0.8.1</a>
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.8.1.tar.gz">Version 0.8.1</a>
released; changes include: support for specifying the channel map on
the command lines of <tt>paplay</tt> and <tt>pacat</tt> and as
arguments to the driver modules; ALSA hardware mixer compatibility;
@@ -70,16 +70,16 @@
protocol modules; fix sample cache; many other fixes</p>
<div class="news-date">Thu Apr 13 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.8.tar.gz">Version 0.8</a> released;
-changes include: too many to count - consider reading <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulseaudio-0.8.html">this blog entry</a> for more information; many, many minor fixes.</p>
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.8.tar.gz">Version 0.8</a> released;
+changes include: too many to count - consider reading <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/polypaudio-0.8.html">this blog entry</a> for more information; many, many minor fixes.</p>
<div class="news-date">Sun Nov 21 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.7.tar.gz">Version 0.7</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.7.tar.gz">Version 0.7</a> released;
changes include: IPv6 support; PID file support; publish credentials
in X11 root window (<tt>module-x11-publish</tt>; new tool <tt>pacmd</tt>; ESOUND backend; new command <tt>load-sample-dir-lazy</tt>; many, many minor fixes.</p>
<div class="news-date">Thu Oct 28 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.6.tar.gz">Version 0.6</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.6.tar.gz">Version 0.6</a> released;
changes include: TCP wrappers support; don't load the complete sound
file into memory when playing back using <tt>pa_play_file()</tt>;
autoload API change; don't load all sound files as FLOAT32; shorten
@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@
STDERR on SIGHUP; new options for <tt>pacat</tt>: allow sample type specification.</p>
<div class="news-date">Mon Sep 24 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.5.1.tar.gz">Version 0.5.1</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.5.1.tar.gz">Version 0.5.1</a> released;
changes include: improve esound protocol compatibility; fix
autospawning via <tt>libesd</tt>; make use of POSIX capabilities;
allow <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling only for users in group
<tt>realtime</tt>; minor build system fix.</p>
<div class="news-date">Mon Sep 20 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.5.tar.gz">Version 0.5</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.5.tar.gz">Version 0.5</a> released;
changes include: extensive API improvements, new module
<tt>module-combine</tt> for combining multiple sound cards into one,
gcc 2.95 compatibility, configuration files, add "lazy" samples,
@@ -106,29 +106,29 @@
<tt>module-pipe-source</tt>, many other fixes and improvements.</p>
<div class="news-date">Wed Sep 8 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.4.tar.gz">Version 0.4</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.4.tar.gz">Version 0.4</a> released;
changes include: daemon auto spawning, support for <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling, three new modules, proper logging, CPU load watchdog, many fixes.</p>
<div class="news-date">Fri Aug 27 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released;
changes include: support for both glib 2.0 and glib 1.2, future cancellation, API updates, many fixes, relicense client library to LGPL.</p>
<div class="news-date">Fri Aug 20 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> released;
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> released;
changes include: added sample cache, introspection API, client API
documentation, module autoloading, glib support, a module for intercepting X11 bell events, and much more.</p>
<div class="news-date">Sat Jul 17 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
-href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p>
+href="@PACKAGE_URL at polypaudio-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p>
<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
-<p><tt>pulseaudio</tt> is a networked sound server for Linux and other
+<p>PulseAudio is a networked sound server for Linux and other
Unix like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. 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>pulseaudio</tt> has:</p>
+PulseAudio has:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extensible plugin architecture (by loading dynamic loadable modules with <tt>dlopen()</tt>)</li>
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@
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>pulselib</tt> is quite difficult to use there is
-a simplified synchronous API wrapper <tt>pulselib-simple</tt>
+available through <tt>libpulse</tt> is quite difficult to use there is
+a simplified synchronous API wrapper <tt>libpulse-simple</tt>
available. A simple main loop implementation is available as well.</p>
<p>The following modules are currently available:</p>
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@
<li><tt>module-combine</tt>: combine multiple sinks into one, adjusting the sample rate if the their clocks deviate.</li>
<li><tt>module-sine</tt>: a sine generate sink input.</li>
<li><tt>module-x11-bell</tt>: play a sample from the sample cache on every X11 bell event.</li>
- <li><tt>module-x11-publish</tt>: store Polypaudio credentials in the X11 root window.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-x11-publish</tt>: store PulseAudio credentials in the X11 root window.</li>
<li><tt>module-esound-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-esound-protocol-unix</tt>: <a href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/apps.html">ESOUND</a> compatibility modules (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
- <li><tt>module-native-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-native-protocol-unix</tt>: Native pulseaudio protocol (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-native-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-native-protocol-unix</tt>: Native PulseAudio protocol (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
<li><tt>module-simple-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-simple-protocol-unix</tt>: Simplistic protocol for playback/capture for usage with tools like <tt>netcat</tt> (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
- <li><tt>module-cli-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-cli-protocol-unix</tt>, <tt>module-cli</tt>: Expose pulseaudio's internals whith a simple command line interface. (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets resp. STDIN/STDOUT)</li>
- <li><tt>module-http-protocol-tcp</tt>: Spawns a small HTTP server which can be used to introspect the Polypaudio server with a web browser.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-cli-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-cli-protocol-unix</tt>, <tt>module-cli</tt>: Expose PulseAudio's internals whith a simple command line interface. (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets resp. STDIN/STDOUT)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-http-protocol-tcp</tt>: Spawns a small HTTP server which can be used to introspect the PulseAudio server with a web browser.</li>
<li><tt>module-tunnel-sink</tt>, <tt>module-tunnel-source</tt>: make sinks/sources from other hosts available locally.</li>
<li><tt>module-match</tt>: adjust volume automatically for newly created playback streams based on a regular expression matching table.</li>
<li><tt>module-volume-restore</tt>: much like <tt>module-match</tt>, but create rules fully automatically based on the client name.</li>
@@ -186,12 +186,12 @@
<li><tt>module-jack-sink</tt>, <tt>module-jack-source</tt>: connect to a <a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK Audio Connection Kit</a> server. (A sound server for professional audio production)</li>
</ul>
-<p>A GTK GUI manager application for pulseaudio is the <a
-href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paman/">Polypaudio
-Manager</a>. Other GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio are the <a
-href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter">Polypaudio Volume
+<p>A GTK GUI manager application for PulseAudio is the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paman/">PulseAudio
+Manager</a>. Other GTK GUI tool for PulseAudio are the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter">PulseAudio Volume
Meter</a> and the <a
-href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol">Polypaudio Volume
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol">PulseAudio Volume
Control</a> .</p>
<p>There are output plugins for <a
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@
<a href="http://www.portaudio.com/">PortAudio</a> will be released
shortly.</p>
+<p>PulseAudio was formerly known as Polypaudio.</p>
+
<h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2>
<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. It matches and supersedes ESOUND's feature set in nearly all areas.</p>
@@ -216,68 +218,68 @@
href="cli.html"><tt>cli.html</tt></a>, <a
href="daemon.html"><tt>daemon.html</tt></a> and <a href="FAQ.html"><tt>FAQ.html</tt></a>.</p>
-<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/">Wiki for Polypaudio</a> available.</p>
+<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/">Wiki for PulseAudio</a> available.</p>
<h3>First Steps</h3>
-<p>Simply start the pulseaudio daemon with the argument <tt>-nC</tt></p>
+<p>Simply start the PulseAudio daemon with the argument <tt>-nC</tt></p>
<pre>pulseaudio -nC</pre>
<p>This will present you a screen like this:</p>
-<pre>Welcome to pulseaudio! Use "help" for usage information.
+<pre>Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
>>> </pre>
<p>Now you can issue CLI commands as described in <a
href="cli.html"><tt>cli.html</tt></a>. Another way to start
-<tt>pulseaudio</tt> is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the
+PulseAudio is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the
command line :</p>
<pre>pulseaudio -nF pulseaudio.pa</pre>
<p>This will load some drivers and protocols automatically.</p>
-<p>The best idea is to configure your daemon in <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/daemon.conf</tt> and <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/default.pa</tt> and to run pulseaudio without any arguments.</p>
+<p>The best idea is to configure your daemon in <tt>/etc/pulse/daemon.conf</tt> and <tt>/etc/pulse/default.pa</tt> and to run PulseAudio without any arguments.</p>
<p><b>Beware!</b> Unless you pass the option <tt>--sysconfdir=/etc</tt> to
-<tt>configure</tt>, the directory <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/</tt> is really
-<tt>/usr/local/etc/pulseaudio/</tt>.</p>
-
-<h3>Developing pulseaudio Clients</h3>
+<tt>configure</tt>, the directory <tt>/etc/pulse/</tt> is really
+<tt>/usr/local/etc/pulse/</tt>.</p>
+
+<h3>Developing PulseAudio Clients</h3>
<p>You may browse the <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/">Doxygen</a> generated <a
href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/doxygen/">programing
documentation</a> for the client API. (Run <tt>make doxygen</tt> to generate this documentation from the source tree)</p>
-<h3>Developing pulseaudio Modules</h3>
-
-<p>There are several reasons for writing loadable modules for pulseaudio:</p>
+<h3>Developing PulseAudio Modules</h3>
+
+<p>There are several reasons for writing loadable modules for PulseAudio:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extended device driver support</li>
<li>Protocol support beyond ESOUND's protocol and the native protocol. (such as NAS or a subset of aRts)</li>
<li>New programming interfaces such as XMLRPC or DBUS for controlling the daemon.</li>
- <li>Hooking audio event sources directly into pulseaudio (similar to <tt>module-x11-bell</tt>)</li>
- <li>For low latency applications such as VOIP: load the VOIP core directly into pulseaudio and have a slim GUI frontend to control it.</li>
+ <li>Hooking audio event sources directly into PulseAudio (similar to <tt>module-x11-bell</tt>)</li>
+ <li>For low latency applications such as VOIP: load the VOIP core directly into PulseAudio and have a slim GUI frontend to control it.</li>
</ul>
<p>There is currently no documentation how to write loadable modules
-for pulseaudio. <i>Read the source, Luke!</i> If you are interested in
+for PulseAudio. <i>Read the source, Luke!</i> If you are interested in
writing new modules feel free to contact the author in case you have any
questions.</p>
<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
-<p>Currently, <tt>pulseaudio</tt> is tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Microsoft Windows. It requires an OSS, ALSA, Win32 or Solaris compatible soundcard.</p>
-
-<p><tt>pulseaudio</tt> was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux
+<p>Currently, PulseAudio> is tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Microsoft Windows. It requires an OSS, ALSA, Win32 or Solaris compatible soundcard.</p>
+
+<p>PulseAudio was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux
"testing" from November 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>pulseaudio</tt> needs <a
+<p>Pulseaudio needs <a
href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">Secret Rabbit Code (aka
<tt>libsamplerate</tt>)</a>, <a
href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile"><tt>libsndfile</tt></a>, <a
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@
<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>pulseaudio</tt>.</p>
+PulseAudio.</p>
<h2><a name="acks">Acknowledgements</a></h2>
@@ -304,11 +306,11 @@
<p>Jeff Waugh for creating Ubuntu packages (and hopefully soon Debian)</p>
-<p>Miguel Freitas for writing a Polypaudio driver for Xine</p>
-
-<p>Joe Marcus Clarke for porting Polypaudio to FreeBSD</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.cendio.com">Cendio AB</a> for paying for Pierre's work on Polypaudio</p>
+<p>Miguel Freitas for writing a PulseAudio driver for Xine</p>
+
+<p>Joe Marcus Clarke for porting PulseAudio to FreeBSD</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.cendio.com">Cendio AB</a> for paying for Pierre's work on PulseAudio</p>
<p>Sebastien ESTIENNE for testing</p>
@@ -320,7 +322,7 @@
<p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL at pulseaudio-@PACKAGE_VERSION at .tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p>
-<p>Get <tt>pulseaudio</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="svn://0pointer.de/pulseaudio">repository</a> (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=pulseaudio">viewcvs</a>): </p>
+<p>Get PulseAudio's development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="svn://0pointer.de/pulseaudio">repository</a> (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=pulseaudio">viewcvs</a>): </p>
<pre>svn checkout svn://0pointer.de/pulseaudio/trunk pulseaudio</pre>
@@ -328,13 +330,13 @@
<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/pulseaudio/">Freshmeat</a>.</p>
-<p>There is a general discussion <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss">mailing list for pulseaudio</a> available. In addition, you can subscribe to <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-commits">SVN changes</a> and <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-tickets">Trac Tickets</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Polypaudio is being tracked at <a href="http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/pulseaudio">CIA</a>.</p>
-
-<p>There's a chance to meet the Polypaudio developers on our <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/pulseaudio">IRC channel #pulseaudio on irc.freenode.org</a>.</p>
-
-<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/">Wiki for Polypaudio</a> available.</p>
+<p>There is a general discussion <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-discuss">mailing list for PulseAudio</a> available. In addition, you can subscribe to <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-commits">SVN changes</a> and <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-tickets">Trac Tickets</a>.</p>
+
+<p>PulseAudio is being tracked at <a href="http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/polypaudio">CIA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There's a chance to meet the PulseAudio developers on our <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/pulseaudio">IRC channel #pulseaudio on irc.freenode.org</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/">Wiki for PulseAudio</a> available.</p>
<p><b>Please report bugs to <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/newticket">our Trac ticket system</a>.</b></p>
Modified: trunk/doc/cli.html.in
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/cli.html.in?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&r1=1039&r2=1040&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/cli.html.in (original)
+++ trunk/doc/cli.html.in Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
-<title>pulseaudio: Simple Command Line Language</title>
+<title>PulseAudio: Simple Command Line Language</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Simple Command Line Language</h1>
-<p><tt>pulseaudio</tt> provides a simple command line language used by
+<p>PulseAudio provides a simple command line language used by
configuration scripts as well as the modules <tt>module-cli</tt>
and <tt>module-cli-protocol-{unix,tcp}</tt>. Empty lines and lines
beginning with a hashmark (<tt>#</tt>) are silently ignored. Several
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
<h2>Example Configuration Script</h2>
-<p>Mark the following script as executable (<tt>chmod +x</tt>) and run it for a sensible pulseaudio configuration.</p>
+<p>Mark the following script as executable (<tt>chmod +x</tt>) and run it for a sensible PulseAudio configuration.</p>
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/polaudio -nF
@@ -215,6 +215,6 @@
</pre>
<hr/>
-<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, April 2006</address>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, June 2006</address>
<div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div>
</body> </html>
Modified: trunk/doc/daemon.html.in
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/daemon.html.in?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&r1=1039&r2=1040&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/daemon.html.in (original)
+++ trunk/doc/daemon.html.in Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
-<title>pulseaudio: Daemon</title>
+<title>PulseAudio: Daemon</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
<h2>Command Line Arguments</h2>
-The <tt>pulseaudio</tt> daemon accepts several command line arguments:
+The PulseAudio daemon accepts several command line arguments:
<pre>
COMMANDS:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
<pre>pulseaudio -D</pre>
-<p>This will run <tt>/etc/pulseaudio/default.pa</tt> after startup. This should be a script written in the CLI language described in <a href="cli.html">cli.html</a>. </p>
+<p>This will run <tt>/etc/pulse/default.pa</tt> after startup. This should be a script written in the CLI language described in <a href="cli.html">cli.html</a>. </p>
<h2>Signals</h2>
@@ -83,6 +83,6 @@
<p>The daemon logs the current server layout.</p>
<hr/>
-<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, November 2004</address>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, June 2006</address>
<div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div>
</body> </html>
Modified: trunk/doc/modules.html.in
URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/modules.html.in?rev=1040&root=pulseaudio&r1=1039&r2=1040&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/modules.html.in (original)
+++ trunk/doc/modules.html.in Tue Jun 20 01:52:16 2006
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
-<title>pulseaudio: Loadable Modules</title>
+<title>PulseAudio: Loadable Modules</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<h1>Loadable Modules</h1>
-<p>The following loadable modules are provided with the <tt>pulseaudio</tt> distribution:</p>
+<p>The following loadable modules are provided with the PulseAudio distribution:</p>
<h2>Device Drivers</h2>
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
<h3>module-tunnel-{sink,source}</h3>
<p>Tunnel a remote sink/source to a local "ghost"
-sink/source. Requires a running pulseaudio daemon on the remote server
+sink/source. Requires a running PulseAudio daemon on the remote server
with <tt>module-native-protocol-tcp</tt> loaded. It's probably a
better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly since some
buffer control is lost through this tunneling.</p>
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
<h3>module-cli-protocol-{unix,tcp}</h3>
<p>An implemenation of a simple command line based protocol for
-controlling the <tt>pulseaudio</tt> daemon. If loaded, the user may
+controlling the PulseAudio daemon. If loaded, the user may
connect with tools like <tt>netcat</tt>, <tt>telnet</tt> or
<a href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/bidilink/"><tt>bidilink</tt></a> to the listening sockets and execute commands the
same way as with <tt>module-cli</tt>.</p>
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
a numerical binary value. If 1 the socket is bound to the loopback
device, i.e. not publicly accessible. (defaults to 1)</td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>listen=</tt></td><td>(only for <tt>-tcp</tt>) The IP address to listen on. If specified, supersedes the value specified in <tt>loopback=</tt></td></tr>
- <tr><td><tt>socket=</tt></td><td>(only for <tt>-unix</tt>) The UNIX socket name (defaults to <tt>/tmp/pulseaudio/cli</tt>)</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><tt>socket=</tt></td><td>(only for <tt>-unix</tt>) The UNIX socket name (defaults to <tt>/tmp/pulse/cli</tt>)</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>module-simple-protocol-{unix,tcp}</h3>
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
<p>An implemenation of a protocol compatible with the <a
href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html">Enlightened Sound
Daemon</a> (ESOUND, <tt>esd</tt>). When you load this module you may
-access the <tt>pulseaudio</tt> daemon with tools like <tt>esdcat</tt>,
+access the PulseAudio daemon with tools like <tt>esdcat</tt>,
<tt>esdrec</tt> or even <tt>esdctl</tt>. Many applications, such as
XMMS, include support for this protocol.</p>
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
<h3>module-native-protocol-{unix,tcp}</h3>
-<p>The native protocol of <tt>pulseaudio</tt>.</p>
+<p>The native protocol of PulseAudio.</p>
<p>See <tt>module-cli-protocol-{unix,tcp}</tt> for more information
about the two possible suffixes of this module.</p>
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
<h3>module-http-protocol-tcp</h3>
<p>A proof-of-concept HTTP module, which can be used to introspect
-the current status of the pulseaudio daemon using HTTP. Just load this
+the current status of the PulseAudio daemon using HTTP. Just load this
module and point your browser to <a
href="http://localhost:4714/">http://localhost:4714/</a>. This module takes the same arguments
as <tt>module-cli-protocol-tcp</tt>.</p>
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@
<table>
<tr><td><tt>sink_name=</tt></td><td>The name for the Polypaudio sink. If ommited defaults to <tt>jack_out</tt>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>server_name=</tt></td><td>The JACK server to connect to. If ommited defaults to the default server.</td></tr>
- <tr><td><tt>client_name=</tt></td><td>The client name to tell the JACK server. If ommited defaults to <tt>pulseaudio</tt>.</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><tt>client_name=</tt></td><td>The client name to tell the JACK server. If ommited defaults to <tt>PulseAudio</tt>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>channels=</tt></td><td>Number of channels to register. If ommited defaults to the number of physical playback ports of the JACK server.</td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>connect=</tt></td><td>Takes a boolean value. If enabled (the default) Polypaudio will try to connect its ports to the physicial playback ports of the JACK server</td></tr>
</table>
@@ -455,18 +455,18 @@
<h3>module-esound-compat-spawnfd</h3>
-<p>This is a compatibility module for <tt>libesd</tt> based autospawning of pulseaudio. Don't use it directly.</p>
+<p>This is a compatibility module for <tt>libesd</tt> based autospawning of PulseAudio. Don't use it directly.</p>
<h3>module-esound-compat-spawnpid</h3>
-<p>This is a compatibility module for <tt>libesd</tt> based autospawning of pulseaudio. Don't use it directly.</p>
+<p>This is a compatibility module for <tt>libesd</tt> based autospawning of PulseAudio. Don't use it directly.</p>
<h3>module-match</h3>
<p>Adjust the volume of a playback stream automatically based on its name.</p>
<table>
- <tr><td><tt>table=</tt></td><td>The regular expression matching table file to use (defaults to <tt>~/.pulseaudio/match.table</tt>)</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><tt>table=</tt></td><td>The regular expression matching table file to use (defaults to <tt>~/.pulse/match.table</tt>)</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The table file should contain a regexp and volume on each line, seperated by spaces. An example:</p>
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@
<p>Adjust the volume of a playback stream automatically based on its name.</p>
<table>
- <tr><td><tt>table=</tt></td><td>The table file to use (defaults to <tt>~/.pulseaudio/volume.table</tt>)</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><tt>table=</tt></td><td>The table file to use (defaults to <tt>~/.pulse/volume.table</tt>)</td></tr>
</table>
<p>In contrast to <tt>module-match</tt> this module needs no explicit
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