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-<h1><a name="top">polypaudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="top">PulseAudio @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
-<p><i>Copyright 2002-2004 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p>
+<p><i>Copyright 2004-2006 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i> and Pierre Ossman</p>
<ul class="toc">
<li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
- <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#status">Current Status</a></li>
<li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
<li><a href="#installation">Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="#acks">Acknowledgements</a></li>
<li><a href="#download">Download</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#community">Community</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="license">License</a></h2>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-General Public License for more details.</p>
+Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
-<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</p>
<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
+<div class="news-date">Fri Jul 7 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@pulseaudio-0.9.2.tar.gz">Version 0.9.2</a>
+released; changes include: rename project to PulseAudio (see <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse.html">this blog
+article</a> for an explanation); increase maximum number of concurrent
+connections; fix latency interpolation; add support for reverse endian
+sound cards; add support for recording in <tt>padsp</tt>; reenable CPU
+load limiter; other bugfixes</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Fri Jun 2 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.9.1.tar.gz">Version 0.9.1</a>
+released; changes include: load modules even when libtool <tt>.la</tt>
+files are missing; generate better ALSA device names from
+<tt>module-detect</tt>; if an ALSA device doesn't support the
+requested number of channels or the frequency, accept what ALSA
+suggests instead; amd64 portability; drop <tt>.sh</tt> suffix of
+<tt>esdcompat.sh</tt>; build system fixes; No API or ABI changes were made</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Fri May 26 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.9.0.tar.gz">Version 0.9.0</a>
+released; changes include: new module <tt>module-volume-restore</tt>;
+new OSS API emulation tool <tt>padsp</tt>; 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</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Fri Apr 28 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.8.1.tar.gz">Version 0.8.1</a>
+released; changes include: support for specifying the channel map on
+the command lines of <tt>paplay</tt> and <tt>pacat</tt> and as
+arguments to the driver modules; ALSA hardware mixer compatibility;
+fix linking; properly remove <tt>PF_UNIX</tt> sockets when unloading
+protocol modules; fix sample cache; many other fixes</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Thu Apr 13 2006: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.8.tar.gz">Version 0.8</a> released;
+changes include: too many to count - consider reading <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/polypaudio-0.8.html">this blog entry</a> for more information; many, many minor fixes.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Sun Nov 21 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.7.tar.gz">Version 0.7</a> released;
+changes include: IPv6 support; PID file support; publish credentials
+in X11 root window (<tt>module-x11-publish</tt>; new tool <tt>pacmd</tt>; ESOUND backend; new command <tt>load-sample-dir-lazy</tt>; many, many minor fixes.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Thu Oct 28 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.6.tar.gz">Version 0.6</a> released;
+changes include: TCP wrappers support; don't load the complete sound
+file into memory when playing back using <tt>pa_play_file()</tt>;
+autoload API change; don't load all sound files as FLOAT32; shorten
+default buffers; client-side latency interpolation; add new user
+volume metrics; add <tt>module-tunnel</tt>, <tt>module-null-sink</tt>,
+<tt>module-match</tt> and new tool <tt>paplay</tt>; new API version
+macros; many client API improvements; correctly lock cookie file
+generation; correctly lock daemon autospawning; print daemon layout to
+STDERR on SIGHUP; new options for <tt>pacat</tt>: allow sample type specification.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Mon Sep 24 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.5.1.tar.gz">Version 0.5.1</a> released;
+changes include: improve esound protocol compatibility; fix
+autospawning via <tt>libesd</tt>; make use of POSIX capabilities;
+allow <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling only for users in group
+<tt>realtime</tt>; minor build system fix.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Mon Sep 20 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.5.tar.gz">Version 0.5</a> released;
+changes include: extensive API improvements, new module
+<tt>module-combine</tt> for combining multiple sound cards into one,
+gcc 2.95 compatibility, configuration files, add "lazy" samples,
+support for source and network latency measurements, add
+<tt>module-pipe-source</tt>, many other fixes and improvements.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Wed Sep 8 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.4.tar.gz">Version 0.4</a> released;
+changes include: daemon auto spawning, support for <tt>SCHED_FIFO</tt> scheduling, three new modules, proper logging, CPU load watchdog, many fixes.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Fri Aug 27 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released;
+changes include: support for both glib 2.0 and glib 1.2, future cancellation, API updates, many fixes, relicense client library to LGPL.</p>
+
+<div class="news-date">Fri Aug 20 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> released;
+changes include: added sample cache, introspection API, client API
+documentation, module autoloading, glib support, a module for intercepting X11 bell events, and much more.</p>
<div class="news-date">Sat Jul 17 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p>
<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
-<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like
-operating systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in
+<p><a href="http://pulseaudio.org/">PulseAudio</a> is a networked sound server for Linux and other
+Unix like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an improved drop-in
replacement for the <a
href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/apps.html">Enlightened Sound
Daemon</a> (ESOUND). In addition to the features ESOUND provides
-<tt>polypaudio</tt> has:</p>
+PulseAudio has:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Extensible plugin architecture (<tt>dlopen()</tt>)</li>
+ <li>Extensible plugin architecture (by loading dynamic loadable modules with <tt>dlopen()</tt>)</li>
<li>Support for more than one sink/source</li>
<li>Better low latency behaviour</li>
<li>Embedabble into other software (the core is available as C library)</li>
<li>Simple command line interface for reconfiguring the daemon while running</li>
<li>Flexible, implicit sample type conversion and resampling</li>
<li>"Zero-Copy" architecture</li>
+ <li>Module autoloading</li>
+ <li>Very accurate latency measurement for playback and recording.</li>
+ <li>May be used to combine multiple sound cards to one (with sample rate adjustment)</li>
+ <li>Client side latency interpolation</li>
+ <li>Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback streams</li>
</ul>
<p>Both the core and the client API are completely asynchronous making
use of a simple main loop abstraction layer. This allows easy
integration with asynchronous applications using the
<tt>glib</tt>/<tt>gtk</tt> mainloop. Since the asynchronous API
-available through <tt>polyplib</tt> is quite difficult to use there is
-a simplified synchronous API wrapper <tt>polyplib-simple</tt>
-available.</p>
-
-<h2><a name="status">Status</a></h2>
-
-<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. <tt>polypaudio</tt> does
-not yet match all ESOUND features: currently a sample cache and
-automatic releasing of unused sound drivers are missing. Have a look on the more extensive <a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/src/todo?view=markup">TODO list</a>.</p>
-
+available through <tt>libpulse</tt> is quite difficult to use there is
+a simplified synchronous API wrapper <tt>libpulse-simple</tt>
+available. A simple main loop implementation is available as well.</p>
+
+<p>The following modules are currently available:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><tt>module-oss</tt>: driver for <a href="http://www.opensound.com">Open Sound System</a> (OSS) audio sinks and sources.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-oss-mmap</tt>: same as above, but uses <tt>mmap()</tt> access to the audio buffer. Not as compatible bot more accurate in latency calculations</li>
+ <li><tt>module-alsa-sink</tt>, <tt>module-alsa-source</tt>: drivers for <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">Advanced Linux
+Sound Architecture</a> (ALSA) sinks and sources</li>
+ <li><tt>module-solaris</tt>: drivers for Solaris audio sinks and sources</li>
+ <li><tt>module-waveout</tt>: drivers for Microsoft Windows audio sinks and sources</li>
+ <li><tt>module-pipe-sink</tt>, <tt>module-pipe-source</tt>: demonstration module providing UNIX FIFOs backed sinks/sources</li>
+ <li><tt>module-combine</tt>: combine multiple sinks into one, adjusting the sample rate if the their clocks deviate.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-sine</tt>: a sine generate sink input.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-x11-bell</tt>: play a sample from the sample cache on every X11 bell event.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-x11-publish</tt>: store PulseAudio credentials in the X11 root window.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-esound-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-esound-protocol-unix</tt>: <a href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/apps.html">ESOUND</a> compatibility modules (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-native-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-native-protocol-unix</tt>: Native PulseAudio protocol (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-simple-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-simple-protocol-unix</tt>: Simplistic protocol for playback/capture for usage with tools like <tt>netcat</tt> (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-cli-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-cli-protocol-unix</tt>, <tt>module-cli</tt>: Expose PulseAudio's internals whith a simple command line interface. (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets resp. STDIN/STDOUT)</li>
+ <li><tt>module-http-protocol-tcp</tt>: Spawns a small HTTP server which can be used to introspect the PulseAudio server with a web browser.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-tunnel-sink</tt>, <tt>module-tunnel-source</tt>: make sinks/sources from other hosts available locally.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-match</tt>: adjust volume automatically for newly created playback streams based on a regular expression matching table.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-volume-restore</tt>: much like <tt>module-match</tt>, but create rules fully automatically based on the client name.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-null-sink</tt>: a clocked sink similar to <tt>/dev/null</tt>.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-esound-sink</tt>: a sink for forwarding audio data to an <a href="http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/apps.html">ESOUND</a> server.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-detect</tt>: a module which automatically detects what sound hardware is available locally and which loads the required driver modules.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-lirc</tt>: a module to control the volume of a sink with infrared remote controls supported by LIRC.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-mmkbd-evdev</tt>: a module to control the volume of a sink with the special volume keys of a multimeda keyboard.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-zeroconf-publish</tt>: a module to publish local sources/sinks using mDNS zeroconf.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-rtp-send</tt>, <tt>module-rtp-recv</tt>: modules to implement RTP/SAP/SDP based audio streaming.</li>
+ <li><tt>module-jack-sink</tt>, <tt>module-jack-source</tt>: connect to a <a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK Audio Connection Kit</a> server. (A sound server for professional audio production)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>A GTK GUI manager application for PulseAudio is the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paman/">PulseAudio
+Manager</a>. Other GTK GUI tool for PulseAudio are the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter">PulseAudio Volume
+Meter</a>, <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/padevchooser">PulseAudio Device Chooser</a> and the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol">PulseAudio Volume
+Control</a> .</p>
+
+<p>There are output plugins for <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/xmms-pulse/">XMMS</a>, <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libao-pulse/">libao</a>
+(merged in <tt>libao</tt> SVN) and <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/gst-pulse/">gstreamer</a>
+(merged in <tt>gstreamer-plugins</tt> CVS).</p>
+
+<p>PulseAudio was formerly known as Polypaudio.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2>
+
+<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. It matches and supersedes ESOUND's feature set in nearly all areas.</p>
+
<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
-<p>There is some prelim
enary documentation available: <a
+<p>There is some prelim
inary documentation available: <a
href="modules.html"><tt>modules.html</tt></a>, <a
href="cli.html"><tt>cli.html</tt></a>, <a
-href="daemon.html"><tt>daemeon.html</tt></a>.</p>
+href="daemon.html"><tt>daemon.html</tt></a> and <a href="FAQ.html"><tt>FAQ.html</tt></a>.</p>
+
+<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/pulseaudio/">Wiki for PulseAudio</a> available.</p>
+
+<h3>First Steps</h3>
+
+<p>Simply start the PulseAudio daemon with the argument <tt>-nC</tt></p>
+
+<pre>pulseaudio -nC</pre>
+
+<p>This will present you a screen like this:</p>
+
+<pre>Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
+>>> </pre>
+
+<p>Now you can issue CLI commands as described in <a
+href="cli.html"><tt>cli.html</tt></a>. Another way to start
+PulseAudio is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the
+command line :</p>
+
+<pre>pulseaudio -nF pulseaudio.pa</pre>
+
+<p>This will load some drivers and protocols automatically.</p>
+
+<p>The best idea is to configure your daemon in <tt>/etc/pulse/daemon.conf</tt> and <tt>/etc/pulse/default.pa</tt> and to run PulseAudio without any arguments.</p>
+
+<p><b>Beware!</b> Unless you pass the option <tt>--sysconfdir=/etc</tt> to
+<tt>configure</tt>, the directory <tt>/etc/pulse/</tt> is really
+<tt>/usr/local/etc/pulse/</tt>.</p>
-<p>Documentation for developing with <tt>polypaudio</tt> is not yet
-available. Read the source, Luke!</p>
+<h3>Developing PulseAudio Clients</h3>
+
+<p>You may browse the <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/">Doxygen</a> generated <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/doxygen/">programing
+documentation</a> for the client API. (Run <tt>make doxygen</tt> to generate this documentation from the source tree)</p>
+
+<h3>Developing PulseAudio Modules</h3>
+
+<p>There are several reasons for writing loadable modules for PulseAudio:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Extended device driver support</li>
+ <li>Protocol support beyond ESOUND's protocol and the native protocol. (such as NAS or a subset of aRts)</li>
+ <li>New programming interfaces such as XMLRPC or DBUS for controlling the daemon.</li>
+ <li>Hooking audio event sources directly into PulseAudio (similar to <tt>module-x11-bell</tt>)</li>
+ <li>For low latency applications such as VOIP: load the VOIP core directly into PulseAudio and have a slim GUI frontend to control it.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>There is currently no documentation how to write loadable modules
+for PulseAudio. <i>Read the source, Luke!</i> If you are interested in
+writing new modules feel free to contact the author in case you have any
+questions.</p>
<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
-<p>Currently, <tt>polypaudio</tt> is tested on Linux only. It requires an OSS or ALSA compatible soundcard.</p>
+<p>Currently, PulseAudio> is tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Microsoft Windows. It requires an OSS, ALSA, Win32 or Solaris compatible soundcard.</p>
-<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux
-"testing" from July 2004, it should work on most other Linux
+<p>PulseAudio was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux
+"testing" from November 2004, it should work on most other Linux
distributions (and maybe Unix versions) since it uses GNU autoconf and
GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library
management.</p>
-<p><tt>polypaudio</tt> needs <a
-href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">Secret Rabbit Code (aka <tt>libsamplerate</tt>)</a> and <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">alsa-lib</a>.</p>
+<p>Pulseaudio needs <a
+href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">Secret Rabbit Code (aka
+<tt>libsamplerate</tt>)</a>, <a
+href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile"><tt>libsndfile</tt></a>, <a
+href="http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/"><tt>liboil</tt></a>.</p>
+
+<p>Optionally it can make use of <tt>libwrap</tt>, <a
+href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">alsa-lib</a>, <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libasyncns/">libasyncns</a>,
+<a href="http://www.lirc.org/">lirc</a>, <a href="http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/">HOWL</a> (or preferably the compatibility layer included in its superior replacement <a href="http://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</a>) and <a
+href="http://www.gtk.org/">GLIB</a>. (The latter is required for
+building the GLIB main loop integration module only.)</p>
<h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2>
<tt>./configure</tt> inside the distribution directory for configuring
the source tree. After that you should run <tt>make</tt> for
compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of
-<tt>polypaudio</tt>.</p>
+PulseAudio.</p>
<h2><a name="acks">Acknowledgements</a></h2>
<p>Eric B. Mitchell for writing ESOUND</p>
+<p>Jeff Waugh for creating Ubuntu packages (and hopefully soon Debian)</p>
+
+<p>Miguel Freitas for writing a PulseAudio driver for Xine</p>
+
+<p>Joe Marcus Clarke for porting PulseAudio to FreeBSD</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.cendio.com">Cendio AB</a> for paying for Pierre's work on PulseAudio</p>
+
+<p>Sebastien ESTIENNE for testing</p>
+
+<p>Igor Zubkov for some portability patches</p>
+
+<p>Jan Schmidt for some latency interpolation love</p>
+
<h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2>
<p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p>
-<p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@polypaudio-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p>
+<p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@pulseaudio-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p>
+
+<p>Get PulseAudio's development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="svn://0pointer.de/pulseaudio">repository</a> (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=pulseaudio">ViewCVS</a>, <a href="http://pulseaudio.org/browser/trunk">Trac</a>): </p>
+
+<pre>svn checkout svn://0pointer.de/pulseaudio/trunk pulseaudio</pre>
+
+<h2><a name="community">Community</a></h2>
+
+<p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/pulseaudio/">Freshmeat</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There is a general discussion <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-discuss">mailing list for PulseAudio</a> available. In addition, you can subscribe to <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-commits">SVN changes</a> and <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-tickets">Trac Tickets</a>.</p>
+
+<p>PulseAudio is being tracked at <a href="http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/polypaudio">CIA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There's a chance to meet the PulseAudio developers on our <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/pulseaudio">IRC channel #pulseaudio on irc.freenode.org</a>.</p>
-<p>Get <tt>polypaudio</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/polypaudio/">repository</a>. (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=polypaudio">viewcvs</a>)</p>
+<p>The main project homepage is <a href="http://www.avahi.org/">http://avahi.org/</a>.</p>
-<p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/polypaudio/">Freshmeat</a>.</p>
+<p><b>Please report bugs to <a href="http://avahi.org/newticket">our Trac ticket system</a>.</b></p>
<hr/>
-<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, July 2004</address>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, July 2006</address>
<div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div>
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