HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

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send_sound(1) send_sound(1)
NAME
send_sound - play an audio file
SYNOPSIS
/opt/audio/bin/send_sound
[-format_switch][
-server system][-loop number]
[
-pri priority][-srate rate][
-prate rate][-stereo]
DESCRIPTION
This command plays an audio file.
send_sound
is the command used when you double-click an audio
file from the HP VUE File Manager. The file begins playing, according to the settings of the Audio Control
Panel.
-format_switch
is one these formats:
au Sun file format
snd NeXT file format
wav Microsoft RIFF Waveform file format
u MuLaw format
al ALaw
l16 linear 16-bit format
lo8 offset (unsigned) linear 8-bit format
l8 linear 8-bit format
If you omit the filename with this option, send_sound plays the audio data from
stdin.
-server system
plays the file on the output of an audio server identified by system which is either a system
name or a TCP/IP address.
-loop number
plays the file the number of times you supply. Note that you cannot use this option if the
source is stdin; a filename is required.
-pri priority plays file with the priority you supply, either urgent, hi, normal
,orlo.
-srate rate sets the sample rate of the source audio.
-prate rate plays the audio file at the sampling rate you enter.
-stereo plays a stereo file. This option is needed only for a raw data file with stereo data.
AUTHOR
send_sound was developed by HP.
NeXT is a trademark of NeXT Computers, Inc.
Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
SEE ALSO
attributes(1), convert(1), asecure(1M), aserver(1M), Audio(5).
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