libao.conf(5) libao configuration libao.conf(5)
NAME
libao.conf - configuration for libao.
SYNOPSIS
/etc/libao.conf
~/.libao
DESCRIPTION
libao.conf and .libao are configuration files for libao, the audio out-
put library. They specify various options to libao, as described below.
libao.conf sets system-wide options, whereas ~/.libao sets user-specific
options. When an option is set in both places, the option in ~/.libao
takes precedence.
FILE FORMAT
The file consists of comments and key-value pairs. Comments are on sep-
arate lines that start with a # symbol. The key-value pairs are of the
form:
key=value
where key contains no whitespace and no equal signs. value will be all
of the text after the equal sign until (but not including) the ending
newline. Beware of extra spaces at the end of the line! They will
probably be interpreted as part of the option value.
The following is a list of valid global option keys. Any driver specific
option may be used as well as those keys.
default_driver
The short name of the driver libao should use by default.
Valid values include (not all are available on every plat-
form): pulse, oss, esd, arts, alsa, nas, irix, sun, and
sndio. Note that "sun" is used on many BSD systems as
well as Solaris.
debug (Value optional/ignored)
Sets all the drivers as well as AO itself into debugging
output mode. Unlike passing the debug option to a driver,
debug will also print debugging information from driver
loading and testing.
quiet (Value optional/ignored)
Sets all the drivers as well as AO itself into silent
mode. Errors will return only error codes; neither ao nor
the drivers will print any output whatsoever to stderr.
verbose (Value optional/ignored)
Sets all the drivers as well as AO itself into verbose
mode.
EXAMPLE
Here is an example libao.conf that forces the OSS driver to be used by
default:
# This is a comment.
default_driver=oss
BUGS
libao.conf is missing a number of potentially useful options.
AUTHORS
Stan Seibert <volsung@xiph.org>
September 1, 2003 libao.conf(5)
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