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¶

Below only the basic environment variables 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).