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roard's Drivers
Overview
Currently implemented drivers
Driver | Mode | Flag | Subsys | Description | Devices |
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null | w | SV | W | null audio driver | |
esd | w | V | W | EsounD audio driver | localhost, remote.host.dom |
roar | w | V | WM L X | RoarAudio driver | localhost, remote.host.dom |
raw | w | s V | WM LRX | RAW driver | /some/file |
dstr | w | s V | WM LRX | VIO DSTR driver | /some/file |
oss | rw | s V | W | Open Sound System | /dev/audio |
ao | w | V | W | libao audio driver | DRIVER |
shout | w | V | W | libshout streaming | http://user:pw@host:port/mount.ogg |
sndio | w | V | WM | OpenBSD sndio | /dev/audio, /tmp/aucat-<uid>/default |
rsound | w | V | W | RSound | servername |
portaudio | w | V | W | PortAudio? | |
alsa | w | V | W | ALSA | ??? |
dmx | w | s V | L | DMX512 driver | /dev/dmx |
pwmled | w | s V | L | PWM LED driver | /dev/ttyS0 |
sysclock | w | V | W | System Clock Clock Source | |
cdriver | w | V | W | RoarAudio Client driver | driver#device |
pulsesimple | w | V | W | PulseAudio? Simple | server |
artsc | w | V | W | aRts plain C API |
Drivers we work on
Driver | Mode | Flag | Subsys | Description | Devices |
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jack | rw | V | W | Jack |
Driver details
null: True null driver
This driver doesn't do anything with the data just like /dev/null on a POSIX system. It does not provide a clock. For a dummy driver (for example used if no soundcard is present) use the sysclock driver.
This driver takes no device.
esd: Enlightened Sound Daemon
Connect to a EsounD server.
This driver takes the server address as device.
roar: RoarAudio
Connect to another RoarAudio server.
This driver takes the server address as device.
raw: raw file driver
Connect directly to a file or named pipe. Do not use this driver. Use the dstr driver.
This driver takes the filename as device.
dstr: Descriptive String Virtual Input Output driver
Connect directly to a VIO object. This may be a local or remote file, device or other data source or sink.
This driver takes the object address (normally just a plain filename) as device.
oss: Open Sound System
This driver connects to a OSS device. The Open Sound System is a set of audio drivers available for many systems. This driver also works well on ALSA's, NetBSD's alsa-oss and other OSS emulations.
This driver takes the audio device as device. This is often /dev/audio or /dev/dsp.
ao: libao
This driver uses libao to connect to a device. libao is a abstraction layer to abstract the audio interface in a portable way.
This driver should not be used but is provided as it works on most systems.
This driver takes libao's driver name as device. This is subject to change.
shout: Interface to streaming servers
The shout driver connects to a streaming server using libshout. A common example of such a server is icecast.
This driver takes a full URL to the resource it should send the data to as device name. Commonly this looks like: http://user:pw@host:port/mount.ogg
Defaults are set to match icecast defaults: user: source, password: hackme, host: localhost, port: 8000, mount: /roar.ogg So for an icecast server you will normally only provide host, password and mount point: http://:pw@host/mount.ogg
sndio: OpenBSD sndio
This is the driver to access OpenBSD's new audio interace sndio.
Takes a normal sndio device string as device. See it's docs for more info.
rsound: RSound
Driver to access a RSound server.
This driver takes a server address as device.