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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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standby, off
Stop sound output.
resume, on
Start sound output.
cache sample
Cache the specified sample in the daemon’s memory.
getid name
Retrieve the named sample from the memory.
free name
Free the named sample.
play name
Play the named sample.
loop name
Loop the named sample.
stop name
Stop an ongoing loop at the end of the next cycle.
serverinfo
Get server information.
allinfo
Get all available information from server: server, player,
sample information.
panstream id left right set
Pan for a stream.
pansample id left right set
Pan for a sample. Default left and right values are scaled to 256.
standbymode
Check whether the server is in standby mode.
esddsp
esddsp [options] player args
Reroute non-esd audio data through esd. This permits you to
control all the audio on the system using only esd.
Options
-s, --server=servername:port
Host name of the server where esd is running. The default is
localhost.
-h, --help
Show help message.
-m, --mixer
Use esd as a mixer.
-n, --name=player
Specify name of player.
-v, --verbose
Verbose output: show parameters.
--mmap
Use memory-mapping emulation. Good for memory-intensive
applications such as 3-D games.
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