PAD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual PAD(4)NAME
pad — Pseudo audio device driver
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device pad
audio* at audiobus?
DESCRIPTION
pad is a pseudo-device driver which provides support for feeding back PCM
data from a consumer of the audio(4) API to userland.
FILES
The pad pseudo-device driver receives data from /dev/soundN and feeds the
raw PCM output to /dev/padN.
/dev/soundN
/dev/padN
EXAMPLES
The following example streams an MP3 to an Apple AirTunes compatible
device:
$ rtunes - < /dev/pad0 &
$ mpg123 -a /dev/sound1 mozart.mp3
SEE ALSOaudio(4)HISTORY
The pad driver appeared in NetBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
Jared D. McNeill ⟨jmcneill@invisible.ca⟩
BSD November 11, 2007 BSD