configurable audio streaming software:
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para_server streams binary audio data (mp3/ogg files) over
- local or remote networks. It contains two built-in streamers:
- the http streamer and the ortp streamer.
+ local and/or remote networks. It supports three builtin
+ streaming methods (senders): http, dccp, or rtp.
para_audiod runs on the client side and connects to
- para_server. The audio stream is read back and sent through
- any of paraslash's filters (mp3 decoder, ogg vorbis decoder,
- volume normalizer,...) and the resulting stream is written to
- an external program's standard in, usually an audio player,
- like para_play that uses alsa. It is possible to grab the
- stream at any position in the filter chain.
+ para_server. The audio stream is read from the network and
+ sent through any of paraslash's filters (mp3 decoder, ogg
+ vorbis decoder, volume normalizer,...). The resulting stream
+ is written to an external program's standard in, usually an
+ audio player like para_play, the alsa player of the paraslash
+ package. It is possible to grab the stream at any position
+ in the filter chain.
The receiving/filtering software is also available as
- standalone command line tool: para_recv grabs the http or ortp
- stream and writes to stdout; para_filter reads from stdin,
- converts the stream according to the given --filter command
- line options and writes the transformed stream to stdout.
+ standalone command line tool: para_recv grabs the stream and
+ writes to stdout; para_filter reads from stdin, converts the
+ stream according to the given --filter command line options
+ and writes the transformed stream to stdout.
configurable audio file selectors:
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- There are three audio file selectors available:
-
- - random
- - playlist
- - mysql
+ There are three audio file selectors available: random,
+ playlist and mysql
The first two of these are rather simple, and they are always
supported. They allow streaming of randomly selected files
or files given by a playlist respectively.
The (optional) mysql selector is more involved. It manages
- statistics on your audio files and audio file selection is
+ statistics on your audio files, and audio file selection is
done by sending a user-defined sql-query to the mysql server.
This allows rather sophisticated configurations and is
explained in detail in README.mysql.
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paraslash is lightweight. The stripped binary of para_server
with all its features compiled in (mysql/random/playlist
- selector, mp3/ogg support, http/ortp support) is about 110K
+ selector, mp3/ogg support, http/dccp/ortp support) is about 110K
on i386 under Linux. para_audiod is even smaller.
command line interface, including shell: