<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>
<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
+<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; many, many minor fixes.</p>
+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;
<p>The following modules are currently available:</p>
<ul>
- <li><tt>module-oss</tt>: driver for Open Sound System 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</li>
- <li><tt>module-alsa-sink</tt>, <tt>module-alsa-source</tt>: drivers for ALSA sinks and sources</li>
+ <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.</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 Polypaudio credentials in the X11 root window.</li>
- <li><tt>module-esound-protocol-tcp</tt>, <tt>module-esound-protocol-unix</tt>: ESOUND compatibility modules (for TCP/IP resp. UNIX domain sockets)</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 polypaudio 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 polypaudio'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 Polypaudio 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 ESOUND server.</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><tt>polypaudio</tt> is the successor of my previous, ill-fated
-attempt to write a sound server, <a
-href="http://asd.sf.net/">asd</a>.</p>
-
<p>A GTK GUI manager application for polypaudio is the <a
href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paman/">Polypaudio
-Manager</a>.
Another GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio is the <a
+Manager</a>.
Other GTK GUI tool for Polypaudio are the <a
href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter">Polypaudio Volume
-Meter</a>.</p>
+Meter</a> and the <a
+href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol">Polypaudio Volume
+Control</a> .</p>
<p>There are output plugins for <a
href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/xmms-polyp/">XMMS</a>, <a
<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite usable. It matches and supersedes ESOUND's feature set in nearly all areas.</p>
-<p><b>Warning:</b> polypaudio's client API and protocol are not stable
-yet. The client interface is still a moving target and changes from
-release to release. The client API's library version number is currently fixed to <tt>0.0.0</tt>.</p>
-
<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
<p>There is some preliminary documentation available: <a
<p>There are several reasons for writing loadable modules for polypaudio:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Device driver support in addition to ALSA/OSS</li>
+ <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 polypaudio (similar to <tt>module-x11-bell</tt>)</li>
<p><a href="http://www.cendio.com">Cendio AB</a> for paying for Pierre's work on Polypaudio</p>
+<p>Sebastien ESTIENNE for testing</p>
+
+<p>Igor Zubkov for some portability patches</p>
+
<h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2>
<p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p>
<pre>svn checkout svn://0pointer.de/polypaudio/trunk polypaudio</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/polypaudio/">Freshmeat</a>.</p>
<p>There is a general discussion <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/polypaudio-discuss">mailing list for polypaudio</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/polypaudio-tickets">Trac Tickets</a>.</p>
+<p>Polypaudio is being tracked at <a href="http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/polypaudio">CIA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There's a chance to meet the Polypaudio developers on our <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/polypaudio">IRC channel #polypaudio on irc.freenode.org</a>.</p>
+
<p>There is a <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/">Trac</a> based <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/polypaudio/">Wiki for Polypaudio</a> available.</p>
<p><b>Please report bugs to <a href="http://0pointer.de/trac/polypaudio/newticket">our Trac ticket system</a>.</b></p>
<hr/>
-<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, April 2006</address>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, May 2006</address>
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