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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-05-23 12:56:28 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-05-23 12:56:28 +0000
commit8fa18cd3b1ac2b5bbc2ee3800e91510da9e8472b (patch)
tree593da7210e1e553be8491cb07341740046359f99 /usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
parenta29db24950234f3aeb9df71679fb0ba1a735fc76 (diff)
various fixes for aucat.1, and sync usage(); ok ratchov
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/aucat/aucat.197
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1 b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
index 7e9d7a4d93b..71b7db11172 100644
--- a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.16 2008/05/23 07:15:46 ratchov Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.17 2008/05/23 12:56:27 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Alexandre Ratchov <alex@caoua.org>
.\"
@@ -43,49 +43,47 @@ The
utility can record one input stream
and store it on multiple destination files,
doing the necessary conversions on the fly.
-Simultaneously, it can play, convert, and mix multiple input files.
+It can play, convert, and mix multiple input files simultaneously.
.Nm
also has a legacy mode that works like previous versions of
.Nm ,
which does not convert on the fly and supports playback of .au files.
+.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "-m mmmmmmmm "
.It Fl C Ar min : Ns Ar max
-Range of channel numbers on the output stream specified by
-.Fl o
-options that follow (the default is 0:1, i.e. stereo).
+The range of channel numbers on the output stream.
+The default is 0:1, i.e. stereo.
.It Fl c Ar min : Ns Ar max
-Range of channel numbers in the input stream specified by
-.Fl i
-options that follow (the default is 0:1, i.e. stereo).
+The range of channel numbers on the input stream.
+The default is 0:1, i.e. stereo.
.It Fl d Ar level
The debug level:
may be a value between 0 and 4.
.It Fl E Ar enc
-Encoding of the output stream specified by the
-.Fl o
-options that follow (the default is signed, 16-bit, native byte order).
+Encoding of the output stream.
+The default is signed, 16-bit, native byte order.
.It Fl e Ar enc
-Encoding of the input stream specified by
-.Fl i
-options that follow (the default is signed, 16-bit, native byte order).
-.It Fl H Ar fmt
-File format of the output stream specified by the
-.Fl o
-options that follow (the default is auto).
-.It Fl h Ar fmt
-File format of the input stream specified by
-.Fl i
-options that follow (the default is auto).
+Encoding of the input stream.
+The default is signed, 16-bit, native byte order.
.It Fl f Ar device
+The
.Xr audio 4
-device to use for playing and/or recording (the default is
-.Pa /dev/audio ) .
+device to use for playing and/or recording.
+The default is
+.Pa /dev/audio .
+.It Fl H Ar fmt
+File format of the output stream (see below).
+The default is auto.
+.It Fl h Ar fmt
+File format of the input stream (see below).
+The default is auto.
.It Fl i Ar file
Add this file to the list of files to play.
The format of the file is specified by the last
-.Fl e ,
.Fl c ,
+.Fl e ,
+.Fl h ,
and
.Fl r
options.
@@ -95,8 +93,9 @@ then standard input will be used.
.It Fl o Ar file
Add this file to the list of files in which to store recorded samples.
The format of the file is specified by the last
-.Fl E ,
.Fl C ,
+.Fl E ,
+.Fl H ,
and
.Fl R
options.
@@ -104,48 +103,47 @@ If the option argument is
.Sq -
then standard output will be used.
.It Fl R Ar rate
-Sample rate in Hertz of the output stream specified by the
-.Fl o
-options that follow (the default is 44100Hz).
+Sample rate in Hertz of the output stream.
+The default is 44100Hz.
.It Fl r Ar rate
-Sample rate in Hertz of the input stream specified by
-.Fl i
-options that follow (the default is 44100Hz).
+Sample rate in Hertz of the input stream.
+The default is 44100Hz.
.It Fl u
Don't try to automatically determine the optimal parameters for the
audio device;
instead use the parameters specified by the last
-.Fl E ,
.Fl C ,
-.Fl R ,
-.Fl e ,
.Fl c ,
+.Fl E ,
+.Fl e ,
+.Fl H ,
+.Fl h ,
+.Fl R ,
and
.Fl r
options.
-As for
+For the
.Fl i
and
.Fl o
-options, if the
+options, if
.Fl f
-option is used, then parameters must be specified before it.
+is used then parameters must be specified before it.
.El
.Pp
The following file formats are supported:
-.Pp
.Bl -tag -width s32lexxx -offset -indent
.It raw
Headerless file.
-It's recommended to use this format since it has no limitations.
+This format is recommended since it has no limitations.
.It wav
Microsoft WAVE file format.
There are limitations inherent to the file format itself:
not all encodings are supported,
file sizes are limited to 2GB,
-the file must support the
+and the file must support the
.Xr lseek 2
-operation (eg. pipes do not support it).
+operation (e.g. pipes do not support it).
.It auto
Try to guess, depending on the file name.
.El
@@ -211,14 +209,12 @@ If neither
.Fl i
nor
.Fl o
-options are specified,
-.Nm
-will run in legacy mode, in which case
+are specified,
.Nm
-does not convert sample formats or sampling rates.
+will run in legacy mode, and won't convert sample formats or sampling rates.
In legacy mode, all options except
-.Fl f Ar device
-are ignored and all other arguments are assumed to be names of files.
+.Fl f
+are ignored, and all other arguments are assumed to be names of files.
In legacy mode
.Nm
reads files sequentially, and writes them to the specified device.
@@ -245,7 +241,7 @@ The audio device to use.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following command will record a stereo s16le stream at
44100Hz from the default device.
-If necesseary, the stream will be converted and/or resampled
+If necessary, the stream will be converted and/or resampled
to match parameters supported by the device:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ aucat -o file.raw
@@ -282,6 +278,7 @@ $ aucat -i drums.raw -i bass.raw -o guitar.raw
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr audioctl 1 ,
+.Xr cdio 1 ,
.Xr mixerctl 1 ,
.Xr audio 4
.Sh BUGS
@@ -301,4 +298,4 @@ Buffer overruns and underruns are not handled.
.Pp
Processing is done using 16-bit arithmetic,
thus samples with more than 16 bits are rounded.
-16 bits (ie 97dB dynamic) are largely enough for most applications though.
+16 bits (i.e. 97dB dynamic) are largely enough for most applications though.