NAME¶

synaesthesia - visual sound display

SYNOPSIS¶

synaesthesia [--use-sdl] [--use-x] [--use-svga] [--fullscreen] [--width w] [--height h] input

DESCRIPTION¶

Synaestheia is a program for representing audio graphically in real time using an attractive variety of visual effects. It reads sound data from input and displays the visual representation through svgalib, X or SDL.

While synaesthesia is running, moving the mouse over the window will expose a set of audio and other runtime controls.

--use-sdl

Force display via SDL.

--use-svga

Force display via svgalib (i386 architecture only).

--use-x

Force display via X.

--fullscreen

Attempt a full-screen display (requires a fast machine).

--width w

Specify a width for the window.

--height h

Specify a height for the window.

input as cd | line | esd | pipe frequency

Audio source; this should be one of cd, line, esd, or pipe. When using a pipe source, the sample frequency (e.g. 44100) must be specified; synaesthesia will expect a 16-bit stereo PCM stream on standard input. The sound will be played to the audio device.

EXAMPLES¶

synaesthesia esd

synaesthesia cd

synaesthesia line

ogg123 -d raw -f - song.ogg | synaesthesia pipe 44100

AUTHOR¶

Synaesthesia was written by Paul Harrison <pfh@csse.monash.edu.au>.

This manual page was written by Devin Carraway <devin@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).