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 libao.conf(5)                                                 libao.conf(5)
 libao configuration                                     libao configuration

                              September 1, 2003



 NAME
      libao.conf - configuration for libao.


 SYNOPSIS
      /etc/libao.conf

      ~/.libao


 DESCRIPTION
      libao.conf and .libao are configuration files for libao, the audio
      output 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
      separate 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.

      Valid option keys are:

           default_driver
                The short name of the driver libao should use by default.
                Valid values include (not all are available on every
                platform): oss, esd, arts, alsa, alsa05, nas, irix, and sun.
                Note that "sun" is used on many BSD systems as well as
                Solaris.  The "alsa" driver is for the 0.9.x ALSA API,
                whereas the "alsa05" driver is for the 0.5.x API.


 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.



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 libao.conf(5)                                                 libao.conf(5)
 libao configuration                                     libao configuration

                              September 1, 2003



 AUTHORS
      Stan Seibert <volsung@xiph.org>


















































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