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MAN Solaris - esdmon (1)

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esdmon - sound monitor using the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esd)

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esdmon [-s hostname:port] [-b] [-h] [-m] [-r freq] [filename]

The esdmon utility opens the esd socket and duplicates the stream being sent to the sound device.

The following options are supported:

-s hostname:port Contact the esd server on hostname at port.

-b Specify that the output should be in 8-bit format. By default, the output is in 16-bit format.

-h Display help text, and exit.

-m Specify that the output should be in mono format. By default, the output is in stereo format.

-r freq Specify that the output rate should be set to freq. By default, the output rate is set to 44.1 kHz.

The following operands are supported:

filename Specify that the output should be written to filename. By default, the output is written to stdout.

Example 1: Monitor sound from file "beep"

example% esdmon < beep

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

>0 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/esdmon Executable for Enlightened Sound Daemon sound monitor.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-audio
Interface stability	Volatile

esdcat(1), esdplay(1), esdrec(1), esdsample(1), esdctl(1), esd-config(1), libesd(3)

Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006.

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