X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=web%2Fmanual.m4;h=8c00c99bb3ef884ff46ba1c8ba9a3d3cfa87e1e7;hp=b7e059785b193ccb67a1c47d34a6d60143b23229;hb=fdb03951ee708a42795d4abb36d3a8637c478975;hpb=173f53675e7763e0426c063eb5a90606786d25f4 diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4 index b7e05978..8c00c99b 100644 --- a/web/manual.m4 +++ b/web/manual.m4 @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ is applied to all audio files matching this pattern: The command - para_client -- ls -lv + para_client -- ls -l=v gives you a verbose listing of your audio files also showing which attributes are set. @@ -1289,10 +1289,10 @@ to the database, so they need to transfer data the other way round, from the client to the server. There is no knowledge about the server commands built into para_client, -so it does not know about addblob commands. Instead, it inspects the -first data package sent by the server for a magic string. If this -string was found, it sends STDIN to the server, otherwise it dumps -data from the server to STDOUT. +so it does not know about addblob commands. Instead, the server sends +a special "awaiting data" packet for these commands. If the client +receives this packet, it sends STDIN to the server, otherwise it +dumps data from the server to STDOUT. Streaming protocols ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ can be directly sent to the sound device or any other software that operates on undecoded PCM data (visualizers, equalizers etc.). Such filters are called _decoders_ in general, and xxxdec is the name of the paraslash decoder for the audio format xxx. For example, the mp3 -decoder filter is called mp3dec. +decoder is called mp3dec. Note that the output of the decoder is about 10 times larger than its input. This means that filters that operate on the decoded audio @@ -1560,8 +1560,7 @@ the audio stream before it is fed to the decoder. Paraslash relies on external libraries for most decoders, so these libraries must be installed for the decoder to be included in the -para_filter and para_audiod executables. The oggdec filter depends -on the libogg and libvorbis libraries for example. +executables. For example, the mp3dec filter depends on the mad library. Forward error correction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~