purpose = communicate with para_audiod through a local socket
non-opts-name = [command [options]]
[description]
- The client program to control para_audiod at runtime. It allows to
- enable/disable streaming, to receive status info, or to grab the
- audio stream at any point of the decoding process.
+ The client program to control para_audiod at runtime. It can
+ enable/disable streaming, receive status info, or grab the audio
+ stream at any point of the decoding process.
If no command is given, para_audioc enters interactive mode.
[/description]
[supercommand para_filter]
purpose = decode or process audio data from STDIN to STDOUT
[description]
- This program allows to specify a chain of filters which transform the
- audio stream read from STDIN. A common mode of operation is to decode
- an mp3 file with the mp3dec filter, but many other filters exist which
+ This program transforms the audio stream read from STDIN by chaining
+ one or more filters. A common mode of operation is to decode an
+ mp3 file with the mp3dec filter, but many other filters exist which
transform the audio stream in different ways.
[/description]
m4_include(common-option-section.m4)
summary = show milliseconds in log messages
[help]
Selecting this option causes milliseconds to be included in
- the log message output. This allows to measure the interval
+ the log message output. This allows measuring of the interval
between log messages in milliseconds which is useful for
identifying timing problems.
[/help]
purpose = command line audio player
non-opts-name = <audio_file>...
[description]
- para_play operates either in command mode or in insert mode. In
- insert mode it presents a prompt and allows to enter commands like
+ para_play operates either in command mode or in insert mode. In insert
+ mode it presents a prompt and allows the user to enter commands like
stop, play, pause etc. In command mode the current audio file and the
playback position are shown and the program reads single key strokes
from stdin. Keys may be mapped to commands so that the configured
summary = make the http access control list a whitelist
[help]
The default is to use blacklists, i.e. connections to the http sender
- are allowed unless the connecting host matches a pattern given by a
- http-access option. This allows to use access control the other way
- round: Connections are denied from hosts which are not explicitly
- allowed by one or more http-access options.
+ are allowed unless the connecting host matches a pattern given by
+ a http-access option. This option allows using access control lists
+ the other way round: Connections are denied from hosts which are not
+ explicitly allowed by one or more http-access options.
[/help]
[option http-access]
summary = add an entry to the http access control list
(path MTU) of an incoming connection, i.e. on the largest packet size
that can be transmitted without causing fragmentation.
- This option allows to use a value less than the MPS in order to
- fine-tune application performance. Values greater than the MPS of an
- incoming connection can not be set.
+ This option allows values less than the MPS in order to fine-tune
+ application performance. Values greater than the MPS of an incoming
+ connection can not be set.
[/help]
[option dccp-data-slices-per-group]
summary = the number of non-redundant slices per FEC group
* This file contains the public and the private API of the flex/bison based
* mood parser.
*
- * The public API (at the bottom of the file) allows to parse the same mood
+ * The public API (at the bottom of the file) allows parsing the same mood
* definition many times in an efficient manner.
*
* The first function to all is \ref mp_init(), which analyzes the given mood
*
* This function turns a generalized C99 string literal like "xyz\n" into a C
* string (containing the three characters 'x', 'y' and 'z', followed by a
- * newline character and the terminating zero byte). The function allows to
- * specify different quote characters so that, for example, regular expression
+ * newline character and the terminating zero byte). The function receives
+ * quote characters as an argument so that, for example, regular expression
* patterns enclosed in '/' can be parsed as well. To parse a proper string
* literal, one has to pass two double quotes as the second argument.
*
* \param tptr Identifies the task to reap.
*
* This function is similar to wait(2) in that it returns information about a
- * terminated task and allows to release the resources associated with the
+ * terminated task which allows releasing the resources associated with the
* task. Until this function is called, the terminated task remains in a zombie
* state.
*
/**
* The type of a sideband transformation.
*
- * The sideband API allows to filter all data through an arbitrary
+ * The sideband API allows the filtering of data through an arbitrary
* transformation, which is useful for crypto purposes. The transformation may
* either transform the data in place, or return a pointer to a new buffer
* which contains the transformed source buffer. The internal sideband
if (fcp->init_fec) {
/*
* Set the maximum slice size to the Maximum Packet Size if the
- * transport protocol allows to determine this value. The user
+ * transport protocol allows determination of this value. The user
* can specify a slice size up to this value.
*/
ret = fcp->init_fec(fc->sc);
<p> The repository contains the full history of the
project since 2006, all work in progress and the source
- code for the web pages. Choosing this option allows to
- check out any of the four integration branches maint,
+ code for the web pages. Choosing this option allows the
+ checkout of any of the four integration branches maint,
master, next, pu (see the
<a href="manual.html#Git.branches">Git branches</a>
<a href="http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/paraslash.git">gitweb</a>
page contains a snapshot link for each revision. This
- allows to get a specific revision without downloading
+ allows getting a specific revision without downloading
the full history.
</li>
In addition to the three network streaming modes, para_recv can also
operate in local (afh) mode. In this mode it writes the content of
an audio file on the local file system in complete chunks to stdout,
-optionally 'just in time'. This allows to cut an audio file without
-first decoding it, and it enables third-party software which is unaware
-of the particular audio format to send complete frames in real time.
+optionally 'just in time'. This allows cutting audio files without
+decoding, and it enables third-party software which is unaware of
+the particular audio format to send complete frames in real time.
<h3> para_filter </h3>
all. The wav filter is only useful with para_filter and in connection
with a decoder. It asks the decoder for the number of channels and the
sample rate of the stream and adds a Microsoft wave header containing
-this information at the beginning. This allows to write wav files
+this information at the beginning. This allows writing wav files
rather than raw PCM files (which do not contain any information about
the number of channels and the sample rate).
also limited. For example only one application can open the device
at any time. The OSS writer is activated by default on BSD Systems.
-- *FILE*. The file writer allows to capture the audio stream and
-write the PCM data to a file on the file system rather than playing
+- *FILE*. The file writer allows capturing the audio stream and
+writing the PCM data to a file on the file system rather than playing
it through a sound device. It is supported on all platforms and is
always compiled in.
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