Provided by: distmp3_0.1.9.ds1-4.4_all
NAME
distmp3host - daemon for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network
SYNOPSIS
distmp3host
DESCRIPTION
distmp3host is daemon part of distmp3, a utility for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network. The daemon binds port 4600 on localhost and waits for connections. The client connects to a remote host on port 4600 and a handshake occurs. If the handshake goes well the daemon creates two named-pipes (fifos) for the mp3-encoding program to use. It also forks one child as reading or writing from/to the fifos is a blocking system call. The daemon passes the recieved wav data to the output-fifo (which the mp3-encoding program reads its data from). The daemon reads the encoded mp3-data from the input-fifo (the one the mp3-encoder write it's encoded mp3 to) and sends it back to the client who writes it down in a file. Default values are used if none specified, and those defaults are read from /etc/distmp3/distmp3.conf
OPTIONS
-p port The port to listen on. -s datasize The datachunksize to use when sending data to the distmp3host server. -d debug If 1 then debugmessages will be printed on stdout, else suppressed. -df debugfile If defined debugmessages will be printed to file debugfile -w wavfifo The fifo used for writing the wavfile to so the encoder can read it. -m mp3fifo The fifo used by the encoder to write the mp3stream to. -e program $wavfifo $mp3fifo The program used for encoding the wavdata into mp3. $wavfifo will be replaced with what was specified with -w $mp3fifo will be replaced with what was specified with -m SEE ALSO distmp3(1)
AUTHOR
Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>. Idea for distmp3 by Peter Lindqvist <nevyn@wlug.westbo.se>. Manpage written by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>. DISTMP3HOST(1)