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Community

License

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News

Fri May 26 2006:

Version 0.9.0 +released; changes include: new module module-volume-restore; +new OSS API emulation tool padsp; require valid UTF8 strings +everywhere; properly support ALSA channel maps for surround sound; +increase maximum number of channels per stream to 32; add new threaded +main loop API for synchronous programs; introduce real shared object +versioning; a few API additions; many, many bugfixes

+ +

Fri Apr 28 2006:

Version 0.8.1 +released; changes include: support for specifying the channel map on +the command lines of paplay and pacat and as +arguments to the driver modules; ALSA hardware mixer compatibility; +fix linking; properly remove PF_UNIX sockets when unloading +protocol modules; fix sample cache; many other fixes

Thu Apr 13 2006:

Version 0.8 released; changes include: too many to count - consider reading this blog entry for more information; many, many minor fixes.

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The following modules are currently available:

module-oss: driver for Open Sound System audio sinks and sources.
module-oss-mmap: same as above, but uses mmap() access to the audio buffer. Not as compatible
module-alsa-sink, module-alsa-source: drivers for ALSA sinks and sources
module-oss: driver for Open Sound System (OSS) audio sinks and sources.
module-oss-mmap: same as above, but uses mmap() access to the audio buffer. Not as compatible bot more accurate in latency calculations
module-alsa-sink, module-alsa-source: drivers for Advanced Linux +Sound Architecture (ALSA) sinks and sources
module-solaris: drivers for Solaris audio sinks and sources
module-waveout: drivers for Microsoft Windows audio sinks and sources
module-pipe-sink, module-pipe-source: demonstration module providing UNIX fifos backed sinks/sources
module-combine: combine multiple sinks into one.
module-pipe-sink, module-pipe-source: demonstration module providing UNIX FIFOs backed sinks/sources
module-combine: combine multiple sinks into one, adjusting the sample rate if the their clocks deviate.
module-sine: a sine generate sink input.
module-x11-bell: play a sample from the sample cache on every X11 bell event.
module-x11-publish: store Polypaudio credentials in the X11 root window.
module-esound-protocol-tcp, module-esound-protocol-unix: ESOUND compatibility modules (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)
module-esound-protocol-tcp, module-esound-protocol-unix: ESOUND compatibility modules (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)
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-http-protocol-tcp: Spawns a small HTTP server which can be used to introspect the Polypaudio server with a web browser.
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-volume-restore: much like module-match, but create rules fully automatically based on the client name.
module-null-sink: a clocked sink similar to /dev/null.
module-esound-sink: a sink for forwarding audio data to an ESOUND server.
module-esound-sink: a sink for forwarding audio data to an ESOUND server.
module-detect: a module which automatically detects what sound hardware is available locally and which loads the required driver modules.
module-lirc: a module to control the volume of a sink with infrared remote controls supported by LIRC.
module-mmkbd-evdev: a module to control the volume of a sink with the special volume keys of a multimeda keyboard.
module-zeroconf-publish: a module to publish local sources/sinks using mDNS zeroconf.
module-rtp-send, module-rtp-recv: a module to implement RTP/SAP/SDP based audio streaming.
module-rtp-send, module-rtp-recv: modules to implement RTP/SAP/SDP based audio streaming.
module-jack-sink, module-jack-source: connect to a JACK Audio Connection Kit server. (A sound server for professional audio production)

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 . Other GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio are the Polypaudio Volume -Meter.

+Meter and the Polypaudio Volume +Control .

There are output plugins for XMMS,

Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. It matches and supersedes ESOUND's feature set in nearly all areas.

Warning: polypaudio's client API and protocol are not stable -yet. The client interface is still a moving target and changes from -release to release. The client API's library version number is currently fixed to 0.0.0.

Documentation

There is some preliminary documentation available: for the client API. (Run make doxygen to generate thi

There are several reasons for writing loadable modules for polypaudio:

Device driver support in addition to ALSA/OSS

Extended device driver support

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)

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Cendio AB for paying for Pierre's work on Polypaudio

Sebastien ESTIENNE for testing

Igor Zubkov for some portability patches

Download

The newest release is always available from @PACKAGE_URL@

make install

svn checkout svn://0pointer.de/polypaudio/trunk polypaudio

Community

If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of Freshmeat.

There is a general discussion mailing list for polypaudio available. In addition, you can subscribe to SVN changes and Trac Tickets.

Polypaudio is being tracked at CIA.

There's a chance to meet the Polypaudio developers on our IRC channel #polypaudio on irc.freenode.org.

There is a Trac based Wiki for Polypaudio available.

Please report bugs to our Trac ticket system.

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, April 2006

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, May 2006

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