- 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.
-
- 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.
+ para_server. The audio stream is read from the network and
+ sent through any of paraslash's filters (decoder, volume
+ normalizer,...). The resulting stream is written to an external
+ program's standard in, usually an audio player like para_write,
+ which comes with paraslash and contains an alsa player. It
+ is possible to capture the stream at any position in the
+ filter chain.
+
+ The receiving/filtering/playing software is also available
+ as standalone command line tool: para_recv, para_filter,
+ and para_write.