X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=b51a8d39cd8ca153c7996f8a6e9dd94f41bd2b03;hp=967655fc196e82bd51443d3f5c588491480e8fa3;hb=d1bfba58e0a93444c7381e9029eda5e786b2fa02;hpb=2ed89c59f0efcd0a2763f47c7d3455663241e623 diff --git a/README b/README index 967655fc..b51a8d39 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ It contains the following programs: - para_server (obligatory): - This server listens on a specified tcp port and accepts the - usual commands such as play, stop, pause, next. However, there - are many more commands. + This server listens on a tcp port and accepts commands such as + play, stop, pause, next. However, there are many more commands. For audio streaming, at least one sender must be activated. At the moment, paraslash contains two internal senders: @@ -25,19 +24,19 @@ It contains the following programs: All senders have the same set of commands that allow to control the access permissions of the stream. - para_server needs a database tool to work, mainly to determine - which song to stream next. There are two database tools - available: mysql and dopey. The former is recommended as dopey - is only meant as a fallback and as a starting point for people - that want to write their own database tool for paraslash. + para_server needs a "database tool" to work, mainly to + determine which song to stream next. There are three such + tools available: random, plm and mysql. The former chooses + audio files randomly and plm, the playlist manager, can handle + playlists. Both are always supported. - The mysql database tool connects to a mysql server which - holds information on your audio files. It has several unusual - features, see README.mysql for details. + The (optional) mysql database tool connects to a mysql server + which holds information on your audio files. It has several + unusual features, see README.mysql for details. - para_client (obligatory): - The client program to connect to para_server. + The client program to connect to para_server. - para_recv (optional) @@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ It contains the following programs: - para_play (optional) A small wav/raw player for alsa. + Debian package: libasound2-dev - para_audiod (optional, but recommended): @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ If you want to stream ogg vorbis files you'll need: http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ +Debian packages: libogg-dev libvorbis-dev + Note that para_audiod still works even if neither mp3 nor ogg support was compiled in. You'll have to use the --no_default_filters option in this case (and e.g. "mpg123 -" as the stream write command).