Changeset 4613:0421834f1025 in roaraudio for doc/man7/RoarAudio.7


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    11.\" RoarAudio 
    2 .TH "RoarAudio" "7" "July 2008" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido" 
     2.TH "RoarAudio" "7" "November 2010" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido" 
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    44.SH NAME 
    5 RoarAudio \- RoarAudio sound system 
     5RoarAudio \- RoarAudio sound system and package 
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    77.SH SYNOPSIS 
     
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    1111.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
    12 \fBRoarAudio\fR is a network transparent sound system like good old EsounD but supports some more features. 
     12\fBRoarAudio\fR is a modern, multi-OS, network transparent sound system. 
     13It supports a large amount of features required for home and professional usage. 
     14Its main purpose is to connect software (like media players) and devices (like soundcards) as a mid-layer adding features you expect from a modern sound system like software mixing and full network transparency. 
     15 
     16RoarAudio can also be used to connect multiple software components. An example for such a setup is a common webradio setup where the used playback software is connected to a streaming server in addition to a local soundcard. RoarAudio has special features for such setups like meta data passing.  
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    1418.SH "MAIN FEATURES" 
    15  * multible audio streams per client 
    16  * synchronized audio streams 
    17  * vorbis comments like meta data for each audio stream 
    18  * support for EsounD clients via libroaresd 
    19  * mixing clients at individuell levels like an analog mixer 
     19 * fully network transparent. Network support for UNIX Domain Sockets, TCP/IP and DECnet 
     20 * multiple audio streams per client 
     21 * Vorbis comments like meta data for each audio stream 
     22 * support for "legacy" clients via libroaresd, libroararts, libroaryiff 
     23 * support for PulseAudio and OpenBSD's sndio clients via libroarpulse and libroarsndio 
     24 * supported by many media players and other sound using applications! 
     25 * mixing clients at individual levels like an analog mixer 
     26 * server and client side support for common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and many more 
     27 * support for 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit per sample. Mixer resolution up to 64 bit 
    2028 * and many more... 
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    4250Project started in mid of 2008. 
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     52Milestones: 
     53 2008-08-31 First offical release (v. 0.1) 
     54 2009-02-04 First release of the new trunk for 0.2 (v. 0.2beta0) 
     55     With this release the version schema was changed. 
     56 2009-05-21 Release of version 0.2 
     57 2009-09-06 First commercal use (roarphone, v. 0.3beta0) 
     58 2010-06-11 New pre-release based release-cycle was introduced to improve release quality 
     59 2010-08-22 Release of version 0.3 
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