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Package: pulseaudio-utils

Description: Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are:
 paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink.
 pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink.
 parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source.
 pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface.
 pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server.
 padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications.
 pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source
 settings in the X11 root window.
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
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Manual pages:

pacat(1) pacmd(1) pactl(1)
padsp(1) pamon(1) paplay(1)
parec(1) parecord(1) pasuspender(1)
pax11publish(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-utils

Other packages built from the same source:

libpulse0 libpulsedsp libpulse-dev libpulse-mainloop-glib0 pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

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