NAME

       roarcat, roarmon - RoarAudio sound server base clients

SYNOPSIS

       roarcat [OPTIONS]... [FILE]

       roarmon [OPTIONS]...

DESCRIPTION

       This  are  some  basic  clients  for  RoarAuido. Some more complex are listen in the SEE ALSO block.  For
       controlling roard take a look at roarctl(1). For a simple Ogg Vorbis player take a look at  roarvorbis(1)
       (ogg123 supportes RoarAudio via libao plugin).

       roarcat
              Sends raw PCM audio data from a file or stdin (pipe) to the sound server.

       roarmon
              Gets a copy of the audio data the server sends to the soundcard. This is useful for streaming to a
              server like icecast2(1).

GENERAL OPTIONS

       NOTE:  This  list  is incomplete!  In addition to this list all three programs provide compatible options
       for esdcat, esdmon. You can just replace the "esd" in the name with "roar" or use symlinks. This  options
       are for compatibly only and should not used in new programs.

       --help Print some help text.

AUDIO OPTIONS

       --rate RATE, -R RATE
              Set server sample rate.

       --bits BITS, -B BITS
              Set server bits.

       --chans CHANNELS, -C CHANNELS
              Set server channels.

NETWORK OPTIONS

       --server SERVER
              The server to connect to.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Below only the basic environment variables are listend.  For a complete list see libroar(7).

       HOME   The users home directory.

       ROAR_SERVER
              The  address  of the listening server. This may be in form of host:port for TCP/IP connections and
              /path/to/sock for UNIX Domain Sockets or any other supported format. See roartips(7)  for  a  full
              list.  This is the same as the --server option.

BUGS

       There are a lot of bugs...

SEE ALSO

       roarctl(1), roarvorbis(1), roarfish(1), roartestclients(1), roartips(7), libroar(7), RoarAudio(7).

HISTORY

       For history information see RoarAudio(7).

RoarAudio                                           July 2008                                 roarbaseclients(1)