NAME¶
paplay - Play back audio files on a PulseAudio sound server
SYNOPSIS¶
paplay [options] FILE
paplay --help
paplay --version
DESCRIPTION¶
paplay is a simple tool for playing back audio files on a PulseAudio
sound server. It understands all audio file formats supported by
libsndfile.
OPTIONS¶
- -h | --help
- Show help.
- --version
- Show version information.
- -v | --verbose
- Enable verbose operation. Dumps the current playback time
to STDERR during playback.
- -s | --server=SERVER
- Choose the server to connect to.
- -d | --device=SINK
- Specify the symbolic name of the sink to play this file
on.
- -n | --client-name=NAME
- Specify the client name paplay shall pass to the
server when connecting.
- --stream-name=NAME
- Specify the stream name paplay shall pass to the
server when creating the stream.
- --volume=VOLUME
- Specify the initial playback volume to use. Choose a value
between 0 (silent) and 65536 (100% volume).
- --channel-map=CHANNELMAP
- Explicitly choose a channel map when playing back this
stream. The argument should be a comma separated list of channel names:
front-left, front-right, mono, front-center,
rear-left, rear-right, rear-center, lfe,
front-left-of-center, front-right-of-center,
side-left, side-right, top-center,
top-front-center, top-front-left, top-front-right,
top-rear-left, top-rear-right, top-rear-center, or
any of the 32 auxiliary channel names aux0 to aux31.
LIMITATIONS¶
Due to a limitation in
libsndfile paplay currently does not always
set the correct channel mapping for playback of multichannel (i.e. surround)
audio files, even if the channel mapping information is available in the audio
file.
AUTHORS¶
The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop
(dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from
http://pulseaudio.org/
SEE ALSO¶
pulseaudio(1),
pacat(1)