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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.

      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
                platform): oss, esd, arts, alsa, nas, irix, sun, roar 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.




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

                              September 1, 2003



           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>


































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