source: multimedia/libdriv/pulseaudio.xml@ 6f57c53

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  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-http "http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-&pulseaudio-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-md5sum        "33e85023259d530f0a763d5204e8bad9">
  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-size          "1.3 MB">
  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-buildsize     "90 MB">
  <!ENTITY pulseaudio-time          "1.6 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="pulseaudio" xreflabel="PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="pulseaudio.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="pulseaudio">
    <primary sortas="a-PulseAudio">PulseAudio</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to PulseAudio</title>

    <para>
      <application>PulseAudio</application> is a sound system for POSIX OSes, 
      meaning that it is a proxy for sound applications. It allows you to do 
      advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application 
      and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, 
      changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into 
      one are easily achieved using a sound server.
    </para>

    &lfs71_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &pulseaudio-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &pulseaudio-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &pulseaudio-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &pulseaudio-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">PulseAudio Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="intltool"/>,
      <xref linkend="json-c"/>,
      <xref linkend="libsndfile"/> and
      <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
      <xref linkend="openssl"/> and
      <xref linkend="speex"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and 
      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
      <xref linkend="bluez"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libasyncns/">libasyncns</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/">ORC</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://tdb.samba.org/">TDB</ulink> and
      <ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pulseaudio"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of PulseAudio</title>

    <para>
      In order for <application>PulseAudio</application> to communicate
      properly with D-BUS, create a unique user. As the <systemitem 
      class="username">root</systemitem> user, run:
    </para> 

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 58 pulse &amp;&amp;
useradd -c 'Pulseaudio User' -d /dev/null -g pulse \
   -s /bin/false -u 58 pulse</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>find . -name "Makefile.in" | xargs sed -i "s|(libdir)/@PACKAGE@|(libdir)/pulse|" &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --with-module-dir=/usr/lib/pulse/modules &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>find . -name Makefile.in ...</command>: This command changes
      the build system to install <application>PulseAudio</application>
      private libraries into
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulse</filename> instead of
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulseaudio</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib</parameter>: This
      parameter ensures that internal <application>PulseAudio</application>
      helpers are installed in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulse
      </filename> instead of <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec/pulse
      </filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-module-dir=/usr/lib/pulse/modules</parameter>:
      This parameter ensures that <application>PulseAudio</application>
      modules are installed in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulse/modules
      </filename> instead of <filename class="directory">
      /usr/lib/pulse-&pulseaudio-version;/modules</filename>.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          esdcompat, pacat, pacmd, pactl, padsp, pamon, paplay, parec, 
          parecord, pasuspender, pax11publish, pulseaudio, qpaeq, 
          start-pulseaudio-kde and start-pulseaudio-x11
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libpulsecore-&pulseaudio-version;.so, libpulse-mainloop-glib.so, 
          libpulse-simple.so and libpulse.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/pulse,
          /usr/include/pulse,
          /usr/lib/cmake/PulseAudio,
          /usr/lib/pulse and
          /usr/share/pulseaudio
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="esdcompat">
        <term><command>esdcompat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>PulseAudio</application> ESD wrapper script.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio esdcompat">
            <primary sortas="b-esdcompat">esdcompat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pacat">
        <term><command>pacat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Plays back or records raw or encoded audio streams on a
            <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacat">
            <primary sortas="b-pacat">pacat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pacmd">
        <term><command>pacmd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool used to reconfigure a <application>PulseAudio</application>
            sound server during runtime.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacmd">
            <primary sortas="b-pacmd">pacmd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pactl">
        <term><command>pactl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to control a running <application>PulseAudio</application> 
            sound server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pactl">
            <primary sortas="b-pactl">pactl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="padsp">
        <term><command>padsp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>PulseAudio</application> OSS Wrapper.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio padsp">
            <primary sortas="b-padsp">padsp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pamon">
        <term><command>pamon</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to pacat.
           </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pamon">
            <primary sortas="b-pamon">pamon</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="paplay">
        <term><command>paplay</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to play audio files on 
            <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio paplay">
            <primary sortas="b-paplay">paplay</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="parec">
        <term><command>parec</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to pacat.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parec">
            <primary sortas="b-parec">parec</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="parecord">
        <term><command>parecord</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to pacat.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parecord">
            <primary sortas="b-parecord">parecord</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pasuspender">
        <term><command>pasuspender</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool that can be used to tell a local
            <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server to temporarily
            suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications
            access them directly.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pasuspender">
            <primary sortas="b-pasuspender">pasuspender</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pax11publish">
        <term><command>pax11publish</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>PulseAudio</application>
            X11 Credential Utility.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pax11publish">
            <primary sortas="b-pax11publish">pax11publish</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pulseaudio-prog">
        <term><command>pulseaudio</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-pulseaudio">pulseaudio</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="qpaeq">
        <term><command>qpaeq</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an equalizer interface for
            <application>PulseAudio</application> equalizer sinks.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio qpaeq">
            <primary sortas="b-qpaeq">qpaeq</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-kde">
        <term><command>start-pulseaudio-kde</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and loads
            module-device-manager to use KDE routing policies.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-kde">
            <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-kde">start-pulseaudio-kde</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-x11">
        <term><command>start-pulseaudio-x11</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and registers it to
            the X11 session manager.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-x11">
            <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-x11">start-pulseaudio-x11</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>