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4 .TH libao.conf 5 "September 1, 2003" "" "libao configuration"
7 libao.conf \- configuration for libao.
19 are configuration files for libao, the audio output library. They
20 specify various options to libao, as described below.
22 sets system-wide options, whereas
24 sets user-specific options. When an option is set in
25 both places, the option in
30 The file consists of comments and key-value pairs. Comments are on separate lines that start with a
32 symbol. The key-value pairs are of the form:
39 contains no whitespace and no equal signs.
41 will be all of the text after the equal sign until (but not including)
42 the ending newline. Beware of extra spaces at the end of the line!
43 They will probably be interpreted as part of the option value.
45 Valid option keys are:
48 The short name of the driver libao should use by default. Valid values
49 include (not all are available on every platform): oss, esd, arts, alsa,
50 alsa05, nas, irix, and sun. Note that "sun" is used on many BSD
51 systems as well as Solaris. The "alsa" driver is for the 0.9.x ALSA API,
52 whereas the "alsa05" driver is for the 0.5.x API.
59 that forces the OSS driver to be used by default:
67 is missing a number of potentially useful options.
72 Stan Seibert <volsung@xiph.org>