NAME¶

roarcat2sock, roarcatad, roarsin, roarsockconnect - RoarAudio sound server test clients

SYNOPSIS¶

roarcat2sock [OPTIONS]...

roarcatad [OPTIONS]...

roarsin

roarsockconnect HOST PORT

DESCRIPTION¶

This clients are primary for test perpose but may be useful for someone or can be used as examples.

roarcat2sock

This is the same as roarcat(1) but uses roar_simple_new_stream(3) to open the audio stream.

roarcatad

This is also the same as roarcat(1) but uses roar_stream_add_data(3) to fill the server's input buffer.

roarsin

This is the complete version of the sinus generator from roartut(7). It plays a 5 second middle C (523.2Hz) sine.

roarsockconnect

This is just a test tool connecting somewhere via roar_socket_connect(3). First the data of stdin is copied to the socket than the data from the socket to stdout. It's a very simlple semi-bi-directional version of netcat(1).

GENERAL OPTIONS¶

NOTE: This list is incomplete!

--help

Print some help text.

AUDIO OPTIONS¶

--rate RATE, -R RATE

Set server sample rate.

--bits BITS, -B BITS

Set server bits.

--chans CHANNELS, -C CHANNELS

Set server channels.

NETWORK OPTIONS¶

--server SERVER

The server to connect to

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

Below only the basic environment variables are listend. For a complete list see libroar(7).

HOME

The users home directory.

ROAR_SERVER

The address of the listening server. This may be in form of host:port for TCP/IP connections and /path/to/sock for UNIX Domain Sockets. See roartips(7) for a full list. This is the same as the --server option.

BUGS¶

There are a lot of bugs...

SEE ALSO¶

roarctl(1), roarvorbis(1), roarfish(1), roarbaseclients(1), roartips(7), libroar(7), RoarAudio(7).

HISTORY¶

For history information see RoarAudio(7).