Troubleshooting
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-Use the debug loglevel (option -l debug for most commands) to show
-debugging info. Almost all paraslash executables have a brief online
-help which is displayed by using the -h switch. The --detailed-help
-option prints the full help text.
+Use the debug loglevel (-l debug) to show debugging info. All paraslash
+executables have a brief online help which is displayed when -h is
+given. The --detailed-help option prints the full help text.
If para_server crashed or was killed by SIGKILL (signal 9), it
may refuse to start again because of "dirty osl tables". In this
case you'll have to run the oslfsck program of libosl to fix your
-database. It might be necessary to use --force (even if your name
-isn't Luke). However, make sure para_server isn't running before
-executing oslfsck --force.
+database:
+
+ oslfsck -fd ~/.paraslash/afs_database-0.4
+
+However, make sure para_server isn't running before executing oslfsck.
If you don't mind to recreate your database you can start
from scratch by removing the entire database directory, i.e.
This prints out references to missing audio files as well as invalid
playlists and mood definitions.
+Similarly, para_audiod refuses to start if its socket file exists, since
+this indicates that another instance of para_audiod is running. After
+a crash a stale socket file might remain and you must run
+
+ para_audiod --force
+
+once to fix it up.
+
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Audio formats and audio format handlers
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over IP applications, has modest complexity and a small memory
footprint. Wideband and narrowband (telephone quality) speech are
supported. As for Vorbis audio, Speex bit-streams are often stored
-in OGG files.
+in OGG files. As of 2012 this codec is considered obsolete since the
+Oppus codec, described below, surpasses its performance in all areas.
+
+*OGG/Opus*
+
+Opus is a lossy audio compression format standardized through RFC
+6716 in 2012. It combines the speech-oriented SILK codec and the
+low-latency CELT (Constrained Energy Lapped Transform) codec. Like
+OGG/Vorbis and OGG/Speex, Opus data is usually encapsulated in OGG
+containers. All known software patents which cover Opus are licensed
+under royalty-free terms.
*AAC*
The audio format handler code is linked into para_server and executed
via the _add_ command. The same code is also available as a stand-alone
tool, para_afh, which can be used to print the technical data, the
-chunk table and the meta data of a file. Furthermore, one can use
-para_afh to cut an audio file, i.e. to select some of its chunks to
-produce a new file containing only these chunks.
+chunk table and the meta data of a file.
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Networking
connected to a receiver which produces the input stream and a writer
which absorbs the output stream.
-Some filters depend on a specific library being installed and are
-not compiled in if this library was not found at compile time. To
-see the list of supported filters, run para_filter and para_audiod
-with the --help option. The output looks similar to the following:
+Some filters depend on a specific library and are not compiled in
+if this library was not found at compile time. To see the list of
+supported filters, run para_filter and para_audiod with the --help
+option. The output looks similar to the following:
Available filters:
compress wav amp fecdec wmadec prebuffer oggdec aacdec mp3dec
Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control
- XREFERENCE(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4342.txt, RFC 4342) (2006):
Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
+ - XREFERENCE(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6716.txt, RFC 6716) (2012):
+ Definition of the Opus Audio Codec
Application web pages
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