NAME

       libao.conf - configuration for libao.

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/libao.conf

       ~/.libao

DESCRIPTION

       libao.conf  and .libao are configuration files for libao, the audio output library.  They specify various
       options to libao, as described below.  libao.conf sets system-wide options, whereas ~/.libao  sets  user-
       specific options.  When an option is set in both places, the option in ~/.libao takes precedence.

FILE FORMAT

       The  file  consists  of comments and key-value pairs.  Comments are on separate lines that start with a #
       symbol.  The key-value pairs are of the form:
               key=value
       where key contains no whitespace and no equal signs.  value will be all of the text after the equal  sign
       until  (but not including) the ending newline.  Beware of extra spaces at the end of the line!  They will
       probably be interpreted as part of the option value.

       The following is a list of valid global option keys. Any driver specific option may be used  as  well  as
       those keys.

              default_driver
                     The  short  name  of the driver libao should use by default.  Valid values include (not all
                     are available on every platform): pulse, oss, esd, arts, alsa, nas, irix, sun,  and  sndio.
                     Note that "sun" is used on many BSD systems as well as Solaris.

              debug (Value optional/ignored)
                     Sets  all  the drivers as well as AO itself into debugging output mode.  Unlike passing the
                     debug option to a driver, debug will also print debugging information from  driver  loading
                     and testing.

              quiet (Value optional/ignored)
                     Sets  all the drivers as well as AO itself into silent mode.  Errors will return only error
                     codes; neither ao nor the drivers will print any output whatsoever to stderr.

              verbose (Value optional/ignored)
                     Sets all the drivers as well as AO itself into verbose mode.

EXAMPLE

       Here is an example libao.conf that forces the OSS driver to be used by default:

           # This is a comment.
           default_driver=oss

BUGS

       libao.conf is missing a number of potentially useful options.

AUTHORS

       Stan Seibert <volsung@xiph.org>

                                                September 1, 2003                                  libao.conf(5)