source: multimedia/libdriv/audiofile.xml@ 512e6761

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<sect1 id="audiofile" xreflabel="Audio File-&audiofile-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="audiofile.html"?>
<title>Audio File-&audiofile-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Audio File</application></title>

<para>The <application>Audio File</application> package contains the audio file 
libraries and two sound file support programs. These are useful to support 
basic sound file formats.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&audiofile-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&audiofile-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &audiofile-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&audiofile-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&audiofile-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Audio File</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>
</sect4></sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Audio File</application></title>

<para>Install <application>Audio File</application> by running the following 
commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>Audio File</application> package contains
<filename class="libraryfile">libaudiofile</filename> libraries, 
<command>audiofile-config</command>, <command>sfinfo</command> and 
<command>sfconvert</command>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>libaudiofile library</title>
<para>The <filename>libaudiofile</filename> library is used by programs
to support <acronym>AIFF</acronym>, <acronym>AIFF</acronym>-compressed,
Sun/NeXT, <acronym>WAV</acronym> and <acronym>BIC</acronym> audio
formats.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>audiofile-config</title>
<para>The <command>audiofile-config</command> script is used during the compile 
process by programs linking to this library.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>sfinfo</title>
<para>The <command>sfinfo</command> program displays the sound file format, 
audio encoding, sampling rate and duration for audio formats supported by this 
library.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>sfconvert</title>
<para>The <command>sfconvert</command> program converts sound file formats 
where the original format and destination format are supported by this library.
</para></sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>