| Summary: | Missing man pages for parec and parecord | ||
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| Product: | PulseAudio | Reporter: | Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk> |
| Component: | build-system | Assignee: | pulseaudio-bugs |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | pulseaudio-bugs |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | lennart |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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drop separate paplay man page
install man page symlinks for paplay, parec, pamon, parecord state purpose of pacat when invoked with -h |
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That one affects me too. I'm on archlinux, pulseaudio is 4.0. There are no manpages for parecord, parec or paplay. If you do "paplay --help", it doesn't tell you it's purpose, like "this program plays files through pulseaudio". I wannted to know if I could use it as a drop-in replacement for aplay. I want to pipe audio to it like " ... | | paplay -p --format=s16le". But it doesn't say how to specify which file to play or how to specify stdin as source. Of course I tried the "-" at the end. But that doesn't work either. I'm writing this here, because I think that stuff belongs into a manpage or "--help"-text. Ahw, sorry, typo: there should be only 1 pipe and the -p isn't necessary I guess. So I want to do " ... | paplay --format=s16le" Daniel, you can use "pacat" if you want to pipe stuff via stdin. paplay doesn't seem to support that. Created attachment 109610 [details] [review] drop separate paplay man page Created attachment 109611 [details] [review] install man page symlinks for paplay, parec, pamon, parecord Created attachment 109612 [details] [review] state purpose of pacat when invoked with -h patches try to resolve issues raised in bug: 1. there is no man page for parec, pamon, parecord 2. pacat/paplay/parec/paman/parecord -h does not state the purpose 3. remove redundant paplay.1 man page The different between parec/pamon and parecord is that the --raw flag is true or false, resp. Similar for pacat and paplay. This is not very obvious, hence is now stated when calling these tools with -h. |
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My Ubuntu installation has man pages for parec and parecord (symlinks to the pacat man page). I don't know how Ubuntu accomplishes that, because it seems that those symlinks aren't installed when installing PulseAudio from source. > ls /usr/local/man/man1 esdcompat.1 pactl.1 pasuspender.1 start-pulseaudio-kde.1 pacat.1 padsp.1 pax11publish.1 start-pulseaudio-x11.1 pacmd.1 paplay.1 pulseaudio.1