NAME¶
roarcat, roarmon - RoarAudio sound server base clients
SYNOPSIS¶
roarcat [OPTIONS]... [FILE]
roarmon [OPTIONS]...
DESCRIPTION¶
This are some basic clients for RoarAuido. Some more complex are listen in the
SEE ALSO block. For controlling
roard take a look at
roarctl(1).
For a simple Ogg Vorbis player take a look at
roarvorbis(1) (ogg123
supportes RoarAudio via libao plugin).
- roarcat
- Sends raw PCM audio data from a file or stdin (pipe) to the sound server.
- roarmon
- Gets a copy of the audio data the server sends to the soundcard. This is
useful for streaming to a server like icecast2(1).
GENERAL OPTIONS¶
NOTE: This list is incomplete! In addition to this list all three
programs provide compatible options for esdcat, esdmon. You can just replace
the "esd" in the name with "roar" or use symlinks. This
options are for compatibly only and should not used in new programs.
- --help
- Print some help text.
AUDIO OPTIONS¶
- --rate RATE, -R RATE
- Set server sample rate.
- --bits BITS, -B BITS
- Set server bits.
- --chans CHANNELS, -C CHANNELS
- Set server channels.
NETWORK OPTIONS¶
- --server SERVER
- The server to connect to.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
Bellow only the basic environment varibales are listend. For a complete list see
libroar(7).
- HOME
- The users home directory.
- ROAR_SERVER
- The address of the listening server. This may be in form of host:port for
TCP/IP connections and /path/to/sock for UNIX Domain Sockets or any other
supported format. See roartips(7) for a full list. This is the same
as the --server option.
BUGS¶
There are a lot of bugs...
SEE ALSO¶
roarctl(1),
roarvorbis(1),
roarfish(1),
roartestclients(1),
roartips(7),
libroar(7),
RoarAudio(7).
HISTORY¶
For history information see
RoarAudio(7).