libesd(3) C Library Functions libesd(3)NAMElibesd - GNOME Enlightenment Sound Daemon Interface library
DESCRIPTION
The libesd library provides access to the Enlightened Sound Daemon
(esd). The Enlightened Sound Daemon is launched automatically by
libesd if the daemon is not already present. A sockets connection is
managed with the daemon by this API. The connection allows sound data
to be written to the daemon for playback, or read from the daemon for
recording purposes.
The daemon will automatically sample an incoming stream from a client
to the best format that is supported by the sound device. Therefore,
client programs do not have to be concerned with writing platform-spe‐
cific code for handling sound data.
The daemon supports caching. Each sample is given an ID tag, and sound
data can then be accessed via this API with this ID tag.
If the audio device supports simultaneous record and playback at the
same bit resolution, bit rate, and number of channels (in other words,
is full duplex), then the daemon and API also supports simultaneous
reading and writing from the audio device.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/lib/libesd.so GNOME Enlightened Sound Daemon Interface shared
library
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │gnome/gnome-audio │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOesdcat(1), esdplay(1), esdrec(1), esdsample(1), esdmon(1), esdctl(1),
esd-config(1)attributes(5)NOTES
Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.
SunOS 5.11 10 Jan 2003 libesd(3)
