X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=b0bbbadbfdde6ade5b2555365dc87f90ca52d5a1;hp=9cc36f41aca382ddcfde6dc45566cf33aa4cba92;hb=de9a70360fcd3b5285d280ad1f229f679d453603;hpb=40de1dd2fdbb054444d585aa70e2d50166a66e07 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 9cc36f41..b0bbbadb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ See << REQUIREMENTS >> -for a list of required software. You don't need everything listed -there. In particular, mp3, ogg vorbis and aac, ortp support is -optional. Autoconf will detect what is installed on your system -and will only try to build those executables that can be built with -your setup. +for a list of required software. You don't need everything listed there. In +particular, mp3, ogg vorbis and aac support are all optional. Autoconf will +detect what is installed on your system and will only try to build those +executables that can be built with your setup. Note that no special library (not even the mp3 decoding library libmad) is needed for para_server if you only want to stream mp3 files. @@ -100,10 +99,10 @@ the directory /var/paraslash. Alternatively, use the --afs_socket Option to specify a different location for the afs command socket. -For this first try, we'll use a debug level of two to make the -output of para_server more verbose. +For this first try, we'll use the info loglevel to make the output +of para_server more verbose. - para_server -l 2 + para_server -l info Now you can use para_client to connect to the server and issue commands. Open a new shell (as "bar" on "client_host" in the above @@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ Paraslash comes with its own receiving and playing software, which will be described next. Try the following on client_host (assuming Linux/ALSA and an mp3 stream): - para_recv -l 2 -r 'http -i server_host' > file.mp3 + para_recv -l info -r 'http -i server_host' > file.mp3 # (interrupt with CTRL+C after a few seconds) ls -l file.mp3 # should not be empty para_filter -f mp3dec -f wav < file.mp3 > file.wav @@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ supposed to play the audio stream. Try for help. Usually you have to specify only server_host as the receiver specifier for each supported audio format, like this: - para_audiod -l 2 -r 'mp3:http -i server_host' + para_audiod -l info -r 'mp3:http -i server_host' The preferred way to use para_audiod is to run it once at system start as an unprivileged user. para_audiod needs to create a "well-known"